A traveling NYC library finds a permanent home
Ola Akinmowo started The Free Black Women’s Library in 2015 as a social art project designed to center…
San Diego’s strong support for libraries is vital amid growing book bans
Patrons in a library in San Diego County. (File photo courtesy of County News Center) The recent opening…
Literacy Night to collect books for Baltimore students
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and the Baltimore Orioles are teaming up to help students start the school year strong.Literacy…
How local libraries are incentivizing adults to read this summer
QUINCY/HANNIBAL (WGEM) – According to the National Endowment for the Arts, less than half of adults in the…
Detroit Bookfest sees crowd hunting for rare books, local authors
Detroit — Matthew Byrg went hunting Sunday, and he bagged plenty. His take included underground comic books, science…
When the world spins out of control
I’m still chipping away at my summer reading backlog over here, and this week finally made it to…
Book battle: Another Alabama library debating what’s appropriate for children – ‘It’s an agenda’
The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library (HMCPL) board heard passionate public comments at its most recent meeting as the…
Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it,…
Australians, especially men, are reading less than ever before
In the country Victorian town of Hamilton, nearly 300 kilometres west of Melbourne, a group of men meet…