- Rebecca Schinsky has timely advice about bookish gift-giving. (Book Riot)
- And Carolina Ciucci offers some bookish volunteer/charity opportunities. (Book Riot)
- Beth Kephart observes all of the ways writers (and we) can observe. (LitHub)
- Katie McBride Moench reveals how librarians played a role in intelligence during World War II. (Daily JSTOR)
- This is very old person of me, but I like the idea of cursive making a comeback in elementary schools. David Pescovitz shares the news. (Boing Boing)
- Alex Clark muses on just ditching genre labels. (The Guardian)
- Richard Hughes Gibson investigates what it means to finish unfinished literary works. (The Hedgehog Review)
- In a refreshing bit of honesty, Booker Prize celebrity judge Robert Webb confesses that he wasn’t able to read all of the entries in time. Jonny Diamond reports. (LitHub)
- Tajja Isen argues against reading what’s on a book’s jacket. (The Walrus)
- Ella Creamer shares a report from the UK’s Centre for Literacy in Primary Education that found a rise in the number of characters in children’s books who represent minorities. (The Guardian)
- Robert Samuels recounts what happened when his book for teens about George Floyd was banned in Tennessee and his speech was censored, highlighting what it really means when book banners get their way. (The New Yorker)
- …and a present of censorship news, courtesy of the Book Riot crew.
