September 26, 2017

How to fight the richest people in New York and win: Lessons from the movement to save the New York Public Library

Members of the Committee to Save the New York Public Library

Today we celebrate the paperback release of Patience and Fortitude, Scott Sherman’s account of the movement to save the beloved, beleaguered New York Public Library from trustees who, just before the financial crisis of 2008, had… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths
Theories abound after anonymous return of Darwin's notebooks — Tom Clayton
"Wot, No Books?" Milton Keynes library saved after protesters check out its entire stock — Tom Clayton
Belgian publisher donates over a thousand books to railway station libraries — Tom Clayton

Out today in paperback: Patience and Fortitude by Scott Sherman

Melville House

In the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, the leaders of the New York Public Library, with the backing of Stephen Schwarzman, the Blackstone Group’s multi-billionaire CEO, forged an audacious… Read more »

Zadie Smith ignores the internet; probably won’t read this

Stephanie DeLuca

Zadie Smith, author of the acclaimed novels White Teeth and On Beauty, has added her name to the list of writers who snub social media and the internet. Covering a recent live event of Smith’s, Alison Flood over… Read more »

Sounds like Brooklyn is finally getting that McNally Jackson

Chad Felix

It’s been over three years since we last reported on legendary New York bookstore McNally Jackson’s plan to open a store in Brooklyn. That outpost—planned for the borough’s expensive, touristy… Read more »