German linguists worry about the girth of a new letter
Language is a notoriously slippery beast. As people continue to insist on using words, they also continue to insist on using them, and spelling them, in their own, sometimes weird,… Read more »
How I ate certain of my books
Over at the AV Club this week, Clayton Purdom tells the tale of Jamie Loftus, who’s eating Infinite Jest. Let me be more specific: he tells the tale of comedian and self-described “freak bitch [with]… Read more »
The TSA will now flip through your anarchist literature
A new federal airport security protocol requiring TSA agents to examine passengers’ reading materials is raising questions about whether such screenings could lead to increased profiling on a religious or… Read more »
English Bankers turn to Dr. Seuss for some writing tips
Bankers: when they’re not defrauding or dancing/not dancing about defrauding, they’re studying the prose style of Dr. Seuss — apparently! According to Business Insider’s Ben Moshinsky, the staff at the Bank of… Read more »
The Power of Positive Cussing
What Color Is Your Parachute? these are not. Browse the self-help aisle at your local independent Amazon bookstore, and you’ll see a new wave of self-help books, aimed at a… Read more »
Celebrate Mother’s Day with KFC’s Romance Novella featuring Colonel Sanders
All kinds of people read romance novels. They must — after all, romance comprises the second-best selling category of fiction. But it’s true that the average readers of these blush-inducing tales are women ages… Read more »
Downtown Books in Manteo North Carolina hosted “Reading Labs,” and you’ll never guess who showed up
Last Friday, Downtown Books in Manteo, North Carolina launched a pilot program called “Reading Labs.” This community partnership is an attempt to use research-driven methods to provide emerging readers with an alternative environment that will promote self-confidence and reduce… Read more »
Love books? Celebrate this holiday about books and love!
What would it take to sell €2o million worth of books in a very short period? Perhaps a new Harry Potter book could do it. Or an incredible coup by some… Read more »
If you really loved your books, you would party while they burned
Melville House, for those not following along at home, is a business, sort of. In the course of that business we acquire books, cultivate them, sanitize them, groom them, parade them around, tweet them,… Read more »
Burning books: still a bad idea
A Florida Man started a wildfire by burning books in his backyard. No jokes here, families were evacuated, and several homes were actually destroyed. For CNN, Christine Sever, Madison Park, and… Read more »