The ceiling in the Rose Reading Room is broken again
After a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling of the New York Public Library’s iconic Rose Reading Room in 2014, the space was closed off for a staggering two-and-a-half… Read more »
Books by Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. are up for auction in the Netherlands
“That little book had such an impact… It changes the course of history.” That’s Mary-Jane Deeb, chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress on… Read more »
Very Naughty Erotica Publisher Faces Felony Charges
Jana Koretko, publisher of JK Publishing in Colorado, is under arrest for money laundering, felony theft, computer crime, and tax evasion, according to Tom McGhee at the Denver Post. It appears… Read more »
Congratulations to Tracy K. Smith, our next poet laureate
Last year, Carla Hayden became the first woman and the first African American and the first actual librarian (in a long time) to be named Librarian of Congress. And it was good. We… Read more »
Linda Sarsour “will not submit to fear”
In February we reported on the efforts of Linda Sarsour—“working woman, racial justice and civil rights activist, every Islamophobe’s worst nightmare, and mother of three”—to raise money for the Jewish… Read more »
Lawyer asks court to force Mississippi Representative to read books
Over the weekend, Mississippi State Representative Karl Oliver took to Facebook to express his outrage about efforts to remove Confederate monuments from various states throughout the South, going so far… Read more »
McDonald’s is giving away books, but maybe hold your applause
Last year, fast food chain restaurant McDonald’s ran a two-week campaign that included books rather than toys in their signature children’s Happy Meals. We worried about parent pandering; we worried about… Read more »
If you ever wanted to know what Jackie Collins was writing at age eleven, you’re in luck
If there’s one thing people love, it’s getting their grubby hands on a manuscript that a writer never meant to have published. Perhaps the most infamous instance in recent years… Read more »
Saudi Arabia endeavors to protect some books
Whereas Manhattan’s Life Sciences Secondary School has “ordered all textbooks rounded up and removed” from classrooms, Pakistan’s Express Tribune reports that Saudi Arabia’s Department of Education in Eastern Province has just… Read more »
Curtis Sittenfeld imagines what Hillary’s life would have looked like without Bill
The Clintons really aren’t going anywhere. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women International event last week, Hillary Clinton announced that she is “back to… Read more »