Rare nineteenth-century books unexpectedly found during a police investigation
Another mystery out of the UK last week: From Hannah Butler at the BBC comes a story out of Anglesey, Wales about a collection of rare, nineteenth-century books unexpectedly found in a home police… Read more »
One year later, teenage vandals reflect on their unconventional sentencing
Last year, we wrote about five Virginia teenagers who were assigned a syllabus of thirty-five books, fourteen movies, two museum visits, and one research paper to encourage “a greater appreciation… Read more »
The Carnegie Library was warned about the security of its books, not too long before its books were stolen
It’s becoming clearer why the spokesperson for the Carnegie Library has been sort of tight-lipped about the whole stolen-books thing. As we reported just two weeks ago, the Oliver Room at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library—where most… Read more »
There is no frigate (for smuggling drugs into jail) like a book
The many book crimes one can commit vary greatly in degree and kind. People steal rare books from libraries (you absolutely should not do this). People steal very average books from… Read more »
If someone offers you an Isaac Newton first edition, please return it: Theft at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library
Oh, good. According to Marylynne Pitz of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in that city, 314 items have been stolen from the Carnegie Library’s rare books room. Making it more difficult to catch the thief is this fact:… Read more »
A brief history of literary violence
This week, while international headlines have been preoccupied with exhaustive coverage of the man with red sauce on his face who has been charged with meatball theft, a more literary—and even… Read more »
Amazon CreateSpace is mostly full of bad books — some criminally bad
Listen, we all know it’s true: a whole lot of the books self-published through Amazon are bad. Honestly, not everyone can be number-one buckaroo Dr. Chuck Tingle, whose self-published line of gay dinosaur erotic erotica deserves leatherbound printing… Read more »
The Story of an Arizona Newspaper Publisher Who Was Probably Intentionally Poisoned by Someone Over Several Months
There’s no smooth way to give you this lede: Arizona police are investigating what appears to be the intentional poisoning of a local newspaper publisher, after he was found with fifteen times… Read more »
Learning Some Words: Prison Book Program sends 450 dictionaries to inmates
Injustice. Privitazation. Nonviolent. The bad news is that these are still words that describe our prison system. The good news is that now more prisoners can look up the definitions to these… Read more »
Criminal justice reform can now get a boost from tech users, i.e. all of us
The criminal justice system in the United States has been targeting and suppressing minorities and poor people for decades, and reforms to combat institutional racism have been stalled or ignored by legislators. But if there’s anything we’ve… Read more »