- The good bookish folk of Reddit are rounding up lists of the best books of the year. (r/books)
- Juliana Kim reports on one of the few genuinely good things to happen on Twitter recently: authors reaching out to commiserate with a newbie when few readers showed up for her event. (NPR)
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia would like folks to let Latin American writers out of the magic realism box. (New York Times)
- Mara Franzen has some suggestions for bookish holiday traditions. (Book Riot)
- Speaking of bookish holiday traditions, Peter Derk explains how to be really bad at gifting books. (LitReactor)
- Ilona Regulski teaches us how to read Egyptian hieroglyphics. (Open Culture)
- Shaun Bythell talks about things (and people) that happen to him at his secondhand bookshop. (LitHub)
- Katy Ilonka Gero takes a look into how humans and artificial intelligence write, or “write.” (WIRED)
- Exhibitions like this one from the Rare Book School make me wish that I lived on the East Coast. Reported by Jennifer Schuessler. (New York Times)
- Josh Jones also has news of odd books: the Madman’s Library. (Open Culture)
- Isaac Schultz reports on the discovery of another female scribe, Eadberg, as revealed by medieval marginalia. (Gizmodo)
- …and a double dose of ongoing censorship news: December 2, 2022 and December 9, 2022. (Book Riot)
