Today marks the beginning of the American Library Association’s (ALA) National Library Week. The theme of this year’s festivities is “Libraries = Strong Communities,” a sentiment with which we whole heartedly… Read more »

When I was eight, I wore a box to school. Just for one day, mind—it was the inaugural World Book Day, in 1995, and I was dressed as Mr. Strong,… Read more »

Fast food leviathans McDonald’s—already no strangers to combining books and burgers—announced this week that their New Zealand branches will replace Happy Meal toys with Roald Dahl books, as part of their latest global… Read more »

Daniel Radcliffe has done a lot of strange things for his career. … Read more »

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Years after the final Harry Potter movie, actress Evanna Lynch reflected on how her relationship with the series affected her struggle with eating disorders and self image, as reported in… Read more »

It’s a question that comes to mind more often than I’d like. I am consistently enamored and curious about the inherent value and excitement fans exhibit when they get the… Read more »

At Publishers Lunch, Michael Cader has a tidy summary of the American Association of Publishers’ revised data for 2017, which contains some surprising revelations. The news is good, more or… Read more »

The first book ever written entirely by a computer—on this planet, anyway—was The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed, composed in 1984 by a program named Racter (a contraction of “Raconteur,” which is… Read more »

We recently wrote about how the types of books most often stolen from certain bookstores might not surprise you. Those oft-purloined Kerouacs, Bukowskis, and Hemingways are clearly a case of… Read more »