- Kathy Peiss relates the story of her uncle, Reuben Peiss, who may have had the coolest librarian job ever. (Crime Reads)
- Vyki Hendy shares some excellent optical illusions on book covers. (Spine)
- Writing stories about writers is a challenge. How do you dramatize the act of staring at a page or a screen and putting words on it? Jonny Diamond reveals that someone in India has managed to turn this solitary labor into, of all things, a reality show. (LitHub)
- Nancy Bilyeau looks into the real history of those marvelously fun romance novel mainstays: the gossip sheets. (Town & Country)
- It doesn’t get any better than Pedro Pascal reading from Pablo Neruda’s translation of Romeo & Juliet. (The Mary Sue)
