Booksology A daily summary of literary headlines at the intersection of today’s books, books, politics, culture, media and more.
It is a beautiful May day in Portland, Oregon, and my ability to provide a normal blend of sharp criticism and insoucian observations has been significantly compromised. Clear the drops of digital closet links in good old times!
The cliches on the book’s cover reached a critical point. What should readers do? (Bookstore)
Visit to Shell Silverstein Archives (Publisher Weekly)
In search of “brodanism”: Where is this biggest difficult cult? (Berliner)
Rachel Kushner, a 20th anniversary of under-zero (Paris review)
Great Language Flat (Atlantic)
The new documentary checks out many ways that the library is “free for everyone” (NPR)
Can religious parents reject books in public schools? (Strict scrutiny)
The New York Times Poetry Reading Challenge (New York Times)
Trump’s orders exclude federal funds from PBS and NPR (WBUR)
Read Your Resistance: Book Prohibition and Courage: A Conversation with Samira Ahmed (Chicago Book Review)
Guffalo returned 20 years later with a new book (BBC News)
Elena Ferrante’s Napoli novel gets a new cover in a special edition. (Today.com)
Kathy Bates is “crushed” about her 1990 film Misery being no more violent.
Brookback Mountain, which will mark its 20th anniversary this summer, will be re-released (deadline)
Columbia lecturers create “Resistance Summer School” after the university eliminates courses in the race (Black Enterprise)
Why I love the Calicré Font Creation App (The Verge)
Maria Popova and McNally Jackson reissue the Forgotten Masterpiece (kottke.org)
Asimov Press ‘New Book, written in DNA (Asimov Press).
