May 29, 2015

Librarians’ patience has been tested at least as long as there have been libraries. Oh, and as long as there have been people. People to bother them. People who need… Read more »

Arts & Culture

New series A Quick Ting On... foregrounds black British culture — Tom Clayton
Gomer ceases publishing new books; focuses on printing — Tom Clayton
The Booker Prize carries on without The Man — Christina Cerio
Wishing the happiest 200th birthday to Herman Melville — Christina Cerio

Boston Public Library just can’t keep track of its collections

Julia Fleischaker

The Boston Public Library is facing criticism over how it takes care of its collection after donating a rare 18th century book to a local nonprofit. The Prospects Before Us was… Read more »

Spare Rib liberated online

Zeljka Marosevic

The iconic radical magazine Spare Rib has been preserved in an online archive by the British Library. From yesterday, all 239 issues of the magazine, which charted the women’s liberation… Read more »

Here’s the best promotional swag from BEA

Liam O’Brien

If you’ve been slowly wrecking your immune system at the Javits Center this week for #BEA15, it’s old news that publishers are going all-out promotionwise. With enough totes to fill… Read more »

The End of the Tour has a trailer and Jason Segel looks silly in it

I am very excited about the upcoming David Foster Wallace not-quite-a-biopic The End of the Tour, a movie about a Rolling Stone writer trying to make sense of the American author. I’m not… Read more »

Melville House Books

NYPL releases the weirdest reference questions from the 1940s-1980s

Kirsten Reach