Alexandra Moe would like us all to read out loud again. (The Atlantic. Let me know if this is behind a paywall. I try not to link to sites and publications that don’t at least give a few free articles per month.)Paywalled.- Betsy Golden Kellem looks at the long history of Shakespeare’s fandom. (Daily JSTOR)
- Ana Schnabl would like the speakers of “big” languages to be more curious about the “little” languages. (The Guardian)
- Kelly Jensen reports on the irony of a Virginia county deciding to exercise some censorship when awarding a prize to a Girl Scout troop that worked on a banned books project. (Book Riot)
- Lincoln Michel explains that people are still buying books, contrary to what some publishers and journalists might say. (CounterCraft)
- Maris Kreizman has some issues with those massive book review lists. (LitHub)
- Lizzie Ramirez interviews students and adults wrangling over a possible Nevada law that would segregate LGBTQ+ novels to their own section in libraries. (Teen Vogue)
- Watch out for the green books! The Bibliothèque nationale de France recently announced that they removed some books suspected of having arsenic dye in their bindings. (The Guardian)
- Alicia D. Williams proposes that music and poetry can help spark the joy of reading in children who aren’t keen on books. (LitHub)
- Adrienne Westenfeld declares that there is a literary travel boom. (Esquire)
- Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman search for the earliest example of written English. (Grammarphobia)
- …and it’s time for some censorship news, courtesy of Book Riot.
The Atlantic is always paywalled, it seems. It says you can start a free trial but I don’t want to go through all of that 🙂
Thank you! I have a subscription, so it’s hard for me to tell if there’s a paywall.
…loved the article about Old English though!