Last week on the bookish internet

Kristen Patterson asks a deliberately provocative question: are science fiction and fantasy the same thing? (Reactor)
David Barnett interviews some of the folks leading the TikTok bookbinding phenomenon. I know I’ve posted about fanbinding before, but I really can’t get enough of how these folks are creating one-of-a-kind copies of titles they love. (The Guardian)
I’ve recently discovered that Kristen Mulrooney has been writing letters to literary mothers. (McSweeney’s)
Dan Kois lays out the many theories that attempt to explain why so many middle grade readers stop reading for fun. (Slate)
Molly Templeton struggles with the idea of “messing up” her books. (Reactor)
Jonathan Russell Clark counts all the ways we love time travel stories. (Esquire)
Monica Wood organizes her books by emotion. (LitHub)
Matthew King knows how Penguin Books chose the penguin—but sadly not why they didn’t become Random Penguin when the firm merged with Random House. (Daily JSTOR)
…and your weekly round-up of censorship news, courtesy of the good folks at Book Riot.

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