British artists demand to roam free
Artists in merry old England want more access to their countryside. And to do so, they used the tried-and-true, never-fails method of penning an open letter to the prime minister.… Read more »
A list of the most popular books set in each country is full of revelations
NetCredit, an online loan marketplace that provides unsecured personal loans, audited the most popular books set in various countries using data from GoodReads. (Wait, what?) I’m supposed to write two… Read more »
Raymond Chandler once tried his hands at jokes…
Raymond Chandler, author of hardboiled detective classics The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye among many others, isn’t exactly known for his silly side. But apparently, he once wrote a… Read more »
Ten years of covering Banned Books Week, a fresh and exciting blog retrospective
Every year, as the leaves turn goldenrod and the kiddos go back to school, the American Library Association rolls out a list of the books most challenged by libraries and… Read more »
What are the other options for those who think GoodReads “sucks” and is “just shy of unbearable”?
Harsh! But Sarah Manavis at The New Statesman is asking the important question for those readers out there who feel that the platform “has become a monster,” “a purgatory” or… Read more »
No, we will not “excuse your dust,” Dorothy Parker. We’ll make a very big deal out of it, thank you very much.
Dorothy Parker left no instructions for her remains, barring the following utterance: “Excuse my dust.” So, in the face of the gnomic wisdom of a dead writer, the people did… Read more »
Will the retroactive reckoning deshelve books?
After a massive, popular outcry about the indiscriminate and unchecked violence of police officers towards Black people across America seized the attention of the nation earlier this summer, a certain… Read more »
Federal judge will not block publication of Bolton’s book because “damage is done”
Is that? Do I hear? Is that the sound of good news? Well, not quite. Here’s where we’re at. As reported in Publishers Weekly, the Department of Justice motioned for… Read more »
Bookstores are opening back up, kind of
June is here and states are creaking open. Some are flinging the doors wide, caution thrown to the wind, while others are moving more gingerly. Bookstores mostly find themselves among… Read more »
Studies find that people are finding more time to read and their brains basically can’t process books anymore
Ahh, the age-old conundrum. According to the Guardian, a survey of 1,000 people in the UK claim that their reading time has nearly doubled, that is from 3.5 hours a… Read more »