- Tajja Isen has wise and soothing words about setting a reading goal for the year. (The Walrus)
- Molly Templeton meditates on the idea of fiction as escapism. (Reactor)
- Ann Lewinson reports on the Grolier Club’s exhibit of books that don’t exist. The exhibit of the Necronomicon made me laugh. (Observer)
- Colin Marshall looks back to an 1894 prediction about what the future of books will
looksound like. (Open Culture) - Edward Gorey used to illustrate his correspondence. (The Paris Review)
- Adriana Gallardo interviews Deborah G. Plant about the resurrection of Zora Neale Hurston’s lost and incomplete novel, The Life of Herod the Great. (NPR)
- Glenn D. Tieffert uses a case study of Chinese journals to demonstrate how vulnerable digital archives are to censorship and “revision.” (Daily JSTOR)
- …and some censorship news from the folks of Book Riot.
I love that one on reading goals!
Me, too! I’m in favor of anything that helps prevent reading turning into a chore.