- Lincoln Michel hilariously muses on the many different deaths of The Author. (Counter Craft)
- The Florentine Codex—an incredible, encyclopedic 500-year-old manuscript written in Spanish and Nahuatl—has been fully digitized! (Getty Research Institute)
- Zachary Turpin explores the lost works of nineteenth-century writers who later became staples of the American canon. (Commonplace)
- Emily Temple shares recordings of Shirley Jackson reading two of her stories, “The Lottery” and “The Daemon Lover,” for your spooky pleasure. (LitHub)
- Will Knight experiments with chat-book-bots. (WIRED)
- Anne Mai Yee Jansen dives into the literature about the power of ghost stories. (Book Riot)
- Marina Yaguello looks into the myth of the Tower of Babel and the hunt for the lingua adamica. (MIT Press Reader)
- Kara Yorio spotlights the utterly delightful Mychal Threets, a public librarian who uses social media to share his enthusiasm for all things library and the people who visit them. (School Library Journal)
- A guest reviewer chats about what it’s been like to be on their local public library board for the past year. (Smart Bitches Trashy Books)
- …and this week’s censorship news, courtesy of the lovely people at Book Riot.
