December 21, 2012 On the Shelf Grass Libraries, and Other News By Sadie Stein Cornell has installed an indoor grass library. Reading habits across America. Speaking of: writers who do not live in Brooklyn. The OED apologizes for insensitivity. More apocalyptic reading.
December 20, 2012 On the Shelf Lists of Lists, and Other News By Sadie Stein Best of the year-end best-of lists. The New York Public Library plans revealed. An antidote to doomsday prophesies. How to wrap books. An anonymous donor steps in to save an Ottawa bookstore.
December 19, 2012 On the Shelf New Bram Stoker, and Other News By Sadie Stein Read a rediscovered Bram Stoker story. Reasons to adore Rebecca West. Successful (really!) pitch letters. The literary grotesques of Feliks Topolski. Salman Rushdie versus Pankaj Mishra.
December 18, 2012 On the Shelf GoT Beer, and Other News By Sadie Stein British children’s magazine Puffin Post is folding after forty years. “#bromance goes sour when 2 friends, Prince Harry and Falstaff, are all #yolo #rkoi #dom until Harry inherits the crown and a conscience.” Yup, Twitter Shakespeare. The (inevitable?) Game of Thrones beer. An inventory of Emily Dickinson’s family artifacts. Indiana Jones journal mystery solved!
December 17, 2012 On the Shelf Apocalyptic Reads, and Other News By Sadie Stein If the end of the world is nigh, here’s a reading list. The scholarship of paperwork. Brick Pollitt, Ben-Hur, Pussy Galore: Gay characters who were turned straight in the film version. Smuggling braille across the border. The library book bed bug scare: overblown?
December 14, 2012 On the Shelf New Hans Christian Andersen? And Other News By Sadie Stein A piece believed to be Hans Christian Andersen juvenilia has been discovered. An editorial assistant job listing at Dalkey Archive earns the title of worst job posting ever. The poster gives his side of things. The fracas prompts the obligatory Twitter account. The best parties in literature.