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Last week on the bookish internet

  • Mark Lawson recounts the history of authors and their estates blocking (or attempting to block) sequels to great books. (The Guardian)
  • Simone Jung writes about rediscovering a love of reading after her college studies almost killed it. (Book Riot)
  • Edward Helmore reports on America’s first official city storyteller. (The Guardian)
  • Mythili Rao shares the strange afterlife of one of Mark Twain’s posthumous, unfinished stories. After reading last week about Terry Pratchett’s hard drive being destroyed by a steamroller, I kind of wish something similar had happened to Twain’s story. (The New Yorker)
  • People, stop stealing books by the Beats. (The Boston Globe)
  • Ireland’s book collectors, sellers, and auctioneers have some advice for building a book collection—if you happen to have hundreds of thousands of euros lying around. It’s nice to dream, isn’t it? (The Irish Times)