World’s most endearing woman returns library book 73 years later
A family of literature lovers committed a library crime—but they were met with an unexpected response. Upon returning a book that was almost 27,000 days overdue, Mora Gregg received interview requests… Read more »
McNally Jackson to expand—and add two new stores
Rumors of McNally Jackson’s troubles have been greatly exaggerated. Back in October, devotees of the beloved indie bookstore became anxious when owner Sarah McNally announced that the original Prince Street… Read more »
Order, order! Publishers set to clean up in the wake of tidying craze
Ah, January. The holidays are over, and the only thing that remains are those weird chocolate liqueurs no-one wants to eat, and a nagging sense of regret: should I really have eaten… Read more »
Want your own little piece of Japanese architecture on your bookshelf?
We love crafty things and crafty people. Maybe that’s just an extension of being a book lover, but by golly, does it bring us joy. So when we heard about… Read more »
Hester Prynne, eat your heart out: naughty books previously on lock-down now on display
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Oxford University is in lust with The Scarlet Letter. As Matthew Taub delightfully tells us in Atlas Obscura, the University of Oxford’s… Read more »
A bus of books to be used to close literacy gap in Statesboro, Georgia
As part of an initiative to close the literacy gap in Bulloch County, Georgia, the Bulloch County School Board surveyed over 400 parents in the area about reading. According to… Read more »
Book lover uses personal library to create imaginative scenes
It takes a lot of creative effort to come up with new and inventive ways to pose books for Instagram – trust us, we know. But, one book influencer has stepped up her game to… Read more »
An innovative eight-year-old sets up Little Free Libraries in Indiana
Eight-year-old Adelyn Brazil loves to read and wants everyone else to love it just as much, too. While on a family vacation to New Orleans, she came across a number of Little… Read more »
The (literary) future is female; now, what about the past? Rare books and feminism
Were you aware that women’s inequality extends to the bookshelf? It does. The literary canon is well-known for being predominantly male, and that trickles down to everything book-related: from which… Read more »
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 »