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This week on the bookish internet

  • Becky Ferreira reports on what might be the oldest known writing yet: millennia-old cave paintings. (VICE)
  • Nikki DeMarco patiently points out what would happen if you removed anything that could potentially offend someone from a school library. (Book Riot)
  • Jessie Gaynor already has opinions on Apple’s controversial AI audiobook narrators. (LitHub)
  • Laura Rodríguez Presa shares some good bookish news: a project to create a children’s library for visitors at the Cook Country Jail in Illinois. (Chicago Tribune)
  • Jeremy Gordon reminds us that libraries aren’t just about books with this amazing story of what happened when Alfred Mapleson brought in 100+-year-old wax cylinder recordings, one of the first media ever used to capture voice and music. (New York Times)
  • Larisha Paul examines the curious case of the author who wasn’t actually dead after all. (Rolling Stone)
  • Bill McKibben talks about what it was like to write serialized fiction, à la Charles Dickens. (LitHub)
  • New year, new dose of censorship news (because that nonsense is still happening), courtesy of Book Riot.