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Vonnegut loves the librarian
“[T]he America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our...
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Saving Peanuts
Here’s something cool from a while back: Adam Kempa blogs about Nicholson Baker’s connection to the recent Fantagraphics reprints of the Peanuts comic strip. Baker made recent headlines with his new...
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The Newtonian Moment
A new exhibition on the work and influence of Sir Isaac Newton opens today at the New York Public Library. The exhibition, which features manuscripts, drawings, rare books, and scientific instruments,...
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Interweb spreds ingorance quickerly
An Alaskan librarian claims that the Web allows ignorance to spread “farther and faster than ever before.” To prove his own point, he misspells the names of columnists Dan Gillmor and Dave Barry, and...
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Books are bad, says Alabama lawmaker
Gay book ban goal of state lawmaker [via Bookslut blog] MONTGOMERY – An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including...
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Pages: illumination
This looks amazing: One hundred exquisite medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, dating from the 10th through the 16th centuries and ranging from miniature portable Bibles to oversized...
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Reading is Fundamentally for People Who Don’t Eat at McDonald’s
Oh, New York Times. You never fail to pass up a chance to be snooty. Recent case in point, a recent post on the Motherlode blog, about RIF’s partnership with McDonald’s: Starting on Friday, McDonald’s...
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Child-Proofing Books
Man, I’m starting to wonder why the Motherlode blog at the Times has such a jones against reading. After the blog’s weird snark toward RIF and McDonald’s, Motherlode then published a piece by the...
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160 Years Ago Today: Astor Library Opens
Astor Library, Lafayette Place.http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astor_Library,_Lafayette_Place,_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.png January 9, 1854: The Astor Library opens...
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