The humpback whale is the subject of the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which is the worst Star Trek movie.

• “Analysts are uncertain about Amazon.com’s future now that Barnes & Noble has finally gone online to peddle books.” This 1997 interview with Jeff Bezos will make you sigh until your diaphragm hurts. (jimromanesko.com)
• “In the face of this overwhelming advance, all one can do, once more, is quote the venality, the corrupted arguments, the bland presuppositions, and hope the somnambulist reader – geographer, linguist, administrator, engineer or metallurgist – will wake up for a moment.” An article by Fred Inglis bemoaning the rise of marketing jargon at every level of higher education is both hilariously bombastic and true. (Time Higher Education)
• Port Richmond Books, located just outside of Philadelphia, is a former silent movie theater that hosts NoirCon every other year. A reporter visited the store and talked to Greg Gillespie, the owner. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
• The first English language bookstore has opened in Havana Cuba. The bookstore is called Cuba Libre, and is also a literary salon and cafe. (Washington Post)
• Seattle Public Library’s Books on Bikes program delivers books to under-served parts of the city (NPR).
• The New York Times Book Review takes a look at Imre Kertesz’s Dossier K, calling it “an account of [Kertesz] that is as original, complex and open to contradiction as the rest of his life’s work.” (New York Times Book Review)

A song for Monday: “Mental Revenge” by Waylon Jennings: