Do you own a bunch of books that you never read? There’s a word for that.
And, that word is “tsundoku.” “Tsundoku” is a word specifically used to describe the type of person who owns a lot of unread books. The word is derived from the word… Read more »
Got some time to spare? This video is the perfect way to spend 10 minutes if you have an overflowing bookshelf of unread or half-read books, or if your “to-read” bookshelf has… Read more »
Literary hotels make for great latter-half-of-summer vacays
Raise your hand if you’ve ever wanted to board in some swanky library suite or bookstore nook. Well, now you kind of can. Literary hotels are beginning to pop up… Read more »
Let’s read into the books Harvey Weinstein brought with him to court, shall we?
Given that he was probably supposed to be paying attention during his arraignment and that he seems like more of a look-at-your-iPhone than a read-a-book commuter, it’s confusing that Harvey… Read more »
Honey & Wax Booksellers announce their second annual Book Collecting Prize for women book collectors
Honey & Wax Booksellers, the New York City rare book store run by Heather O’Donnell and Rebecca Romney, have announced their second annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, open… Read more »
Design Instagrammers are shelving books backwards, because who wants to know what to read in this day and age?
If you went up to Mark Zuckerberg back in 2001 and told him he’d one day ruin reading and books for everyone, he might’ve said, “Ok, I can see that… Read more »
The many ways to organize a bookshelf
There are plenty of advantages to being a true book lover. For me, it’s not just the intimate relationships I may build with an author, or a particular character, but also… Read more »
Hillary Clinton cites Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Timothy Snyder, and Susan Bordo in her new book
Hillary Clinton’s new memoir What Happened is a book about running one of the most controversial presidential elections in history — the highs and lows, the twists and turns. You… Read more »
Thousands of Warren Zevon’s personal books are for sale
Warren Zevon, multiple Grammy Award winner and the excitable boy himself, died in September 2003. Over the fifty-six years before that happened, he amassed a collection of books totaling comfortably… Read more »
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 »