- A report from Fort Lauderdale’s public library: libraries are striking back with banned book sanctuaries. (WSVN News)
- I have thoughts about this notice that scientists at the Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences tackled punctuation patterns in commonly spoken European languages. First, I hope James Joyce was left out of the English sample because he is known to have fucked around with punctuation. Second, German is a confirmed punctuation weirdo! (Phys.org)
- Julia Carmen reports back after a sleepover at Los Angeles’s Last Bookstore. I’m not sure I’d pay for a sleepover at a bookstore, but I would totally sign up for a night at a cool, old library. (Los Angeles Times)
- Bryan VanDyke tells us about John Polidori, the fifth (sixth?) wheel at the famous story contest that produced Frankenstein. (The Millions)
- …and your weekly round-up of censorship news, from the good folks at Book Riot.

