Book Bans Are Surging in Florida. So Lauren Groff Opened a Bookstore. (www.nytimes.com)
Огляд коміксу «Одна весна в Чорнобилі» | Таємна кімната (tayemnakimnata.com) Ukrainian
Огляд коміксу «Одна весна в Чорнобилі» від Емманюеля Лепажа. Історія про Чорнобильську атомну катастрофу очима європейців. "Таємна кімната" - про комікси та мальописи українською.
No one buys books (www.elysian.press)
Not sure I like the “Netflix of books” suggestion(libraries exist!), but I thought this was interesting.
America’s Great Poet of Darkness (hedgehogreview.com)
What Orwell Really Feared (www.theatlantic.com)
“The Small Press World is About to Fall Apart.” On the Collapse of Small Press Distribution (lithub.com)
Please see also: beehaw.org/post/12924678
This bookshop in Fort Collins is paying people to sit down and read quietly (coloradosun.com)
Perelandra Bookshop’s reader-in-residence commits to reading at the store for two hours per week in exchange for a small coffee and book stipend
Should Modern Newspapers Publish Poetry? (the-artifice.com)
The Great Fiction of AI: The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction (www.theverge.com)
Let's talk about Goodreads: Publishing obsesses over Goodreads, but does Goodreads actually sell books? (misshelved.substack.com)
Amazon Kindle e-book updates need a public changelog (goodereader.com)
Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books (lithub.com)
I’m not saying that all self-help is bad. There’s always been an audience for short and snappy self-improvement books (there’s a reason why there are only 7 Habits, not 70), and that’s just fine. But I do worry about a larger phenomenon that I’ll call the bulletpointification of books and media....
Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors 2024 contest collection (grist.org)
The Best (and Most Anticipated) Nonfiction Books of 2024, So Far (www.elle.com)
N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89 (apnews.com)
Transfer Orbit | My most anticipated books of 2024 (transfer-orbit.ghost.io)
A Metaphysical Memoir of Heroin (www.thenation.com)
Archive link...
The 25 science fiction and fantasy books we’re excited for in 2024 (www.polygon.com)
TOORMINA VIDEO - An autobiographical comic by Pat Grant (www.patgrantart.com)
4 must-read books from east Africa in 2023: from Tanzanian masters to Ugandan queens (theconversation.com)
Zola understood our lust for shopping (unherd.com)
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2023 (lithub.com)
The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023 (lithub.com)
'It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? (www.theguardian.com)
Hopefully. Join Bookwyrm!
NPR's Books We Love for 2023 (www.npr.org)
