- James Folta counts the many ways publishers are using AI. (LitHub)
- My library needs to go fine-free for damaged items like this Wisconsin public library, which is now forgiving fines if you submit a picture of the pet that damaged the item. Kelly Jensen reports. (Book Riot)
- Paige Williams profiles Andrea Hansen-Miller, a social worker who helps the homeless at Minneapolis Central Library. (The New Yorker)
- Wendy Chen reveals the poetry of Chinese names. (LitHub)
- Natalie Dressed runs down the theories of what might have happened to Ambrose Bierce. (Boing Boing)
- Jeffrey Davies looks at the history of mail-order books featuring gay characters and homosexuality. (Book Riot)
- Maris Kreizman explains the problem with comparing apple books to orange books. (LitHub)
- Anatoly Liberman offers a smorgasbord of origins for the word “fink.” (OUP Blog)
- Leo Tolstoy sounds nothing like what I expected. (OpenCulture)
- …and a helping of censorship news from the good people at Book Riot.
