- In this week’s “I’m not crying, you’re crying” moment, librarians at Yarra libraries, in Melbourne, called 8,000 elderly patrons during quarantine. (Boing Boing)
- Matthew Sherrill profiles a poet whose life and work are so awful they’re unintentionally hilarious. (Lapham’s Quarterly)
- Emma Jane Unsworth writes on the literary potential of electronic communication. This sounds really boring when I write it, but Unsworth’s essay really is worth reading. (LitHub)
- Brent Swancer presents yet another candidate for first work of science fiction, one that I’ve never heard of before. (Mysterious Universe)
- Jessie Gaynor meditates on the vexing question of how long to give a book before giving up. I usually give a book a couple of chapters unless it’s really badly written. (LitHub)
- This is a new one for me: a book washing machine. (Via r/interestingasfuck)
- I love a good “very, very old books found in very old walls” discovery. Also, these rats deserve some honorary librarian/archivist points. (The Guardian)
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Good grief, McGonagall’s poems are dreadful aren’t they? His friends must have been like those of today who egg on their untalented singer friend to enter Britain’s Got Talent or similar show.