Twain’s notebooks, Plath’s pens, and other preferred writing paraphernalia of famous authors.

Via the minds at McSweeney’s, an invaluable Field Guide to Uncommon Punctuation.

An elaborate, book-themed proposal involving a custom children’s book, a library, and a lot of planning.

The Today Show has reanimated its book club, and kicked off with The Bone Season, by twenty-one-year-old Samantha Shannon. (“The next Rowling?” asks Today, unfortunately.)