So, it turns out that the publisher is having a hard time giving away the money they’ve made from the new edition of Mein Kampf. (Boston Globe)
Jamshid Tehrani and his colleagues adapted biological statistics to track the “DNA” of fairy tales. They report that some stories have been with us for 6,000 years. (Science)
Jennifer Miller’s article for The New York Times, “Men Have Book Clubs, Too,” has been causing serious eyerolling around the bookish internet his week:
On Wired, Charley Locke rounded up some of the best responses to the #ManlyBookClubNames twitter thread.
Julia Fleischaker snarks a bit on the Melville House Blog about the rules of and justifications for men-only book clubs.
L.V. Anderson, of Slate, wrote the only defense of the man-only book club I’ve seen yet.
I think Chuck Tingle just won the internet with his response to the Sad/Rabid Puppies after one of his weird erotica stories appears on their slate for the Hugo Awards. (BoingBoing)
Sarah Gulick has written an extremely useful guide to help identify if we are in an E.M. Forster novel. (The Toast)
