June 13, 2016

Hot on the heels of one experiment with bookseller-less bookselling, Singapore is seeing yet another robot incursion into a book-handling field typically dominated by humans: library shelving. Coby McDonald reports for Popular Science:… Read more »

Bookshelves

"Celebrity Book Curator" throws shade at superstar shelves; brains boggled — Mike Lindgren
#MeToo authors in the classroom: OK or nah? The "Gray Lady" weighs in — Mike Lindgren
Just being around books reportedly enhances intellectual capacity in later life — Michael Seidlinger
Dear Dairy: artist makes book out of cheese — Tom Clayton

Mexico City’s Aeromoto library becomes a cultural hub

Julia Fleischaker

In 2015 in Mexico City, four friends opened a small library in a private home. Now it’s quickly becoming an integral part of cultural life in the neighborhood of Juárez. Called Aeromoto, the… Read more »

A Very Special Art of the Novella challenge: The Nose (Installment #46)

Jonathan Gibbs and Ian Dreiblatt

Title: The Nose Author: Nikolai Gogol First published: 1836 Page count: 50 First line: On the 25th of March, there took place in Petersburg a most extraordinarily strange occurrence. Editor’s… Read more »

When cosplay meets regular plays

Ryan Harrington

The biggest book of this summer may be one that was not exactly intended to be read. It’s the continuation of a beloved series of novels, but it’s a play, based on… Read more »

Melville House Books

We need to talk about robot librarians

Liam O’Brien