- Every time a posthumous work by a famous author is published, there is always a debate about whether that work should have stayed unpublished. Alex Clark reports that one of Gabriel García Márquez’s sons says that Until August shouldn’t have been published. (The Guardian)
- Bill Kasdorf explains the problem of “counterfeit” books. (Publishers Weekly)
- The lovely folks of Medievalists.net have rounded up a series of videos from the British Library about some of the many steps required to create a medieval book, from shaping a quill to creating the inks and pigments to setting up a page for writing.
- Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko explores the fascinating practice of pseudotranslation and how science fiction and fantasy writers make up all sorts of new words to give their worlds flavor. (Uncanny Magazine)
- Drew Broussard shares a listing for what is probably all of our dream job: reader-in-residence. (LitHub)
- Ella Creamer discusses the problems complicating British literacy, including evidence that judging children’s reading choices or restricting what they can read makes children reluctant readers. (The Guardian)
- Elizabeth Minkel looks into the delightful practice of “fanbinding,” where people create their own bookbinding for their own work or to replace the binding of a favorite book. (Atlas Obscura)
- …and censorship news, gathered by the good people at Book Riot.
