‘Brier Patch’. A brand new installation in Madison Square Park.

http://interiordesignblog.org/in-madison-sq-park-brier-patch-literalizes-the-tangles-of-training/

 

Reading Doesn’t Hurt Iowa Kids

Threatening to throw a teacher or librarian in jail would lead to an outcome that would be worse for everyone. A good piece in an Iowa paper:

https://apple.news/AZKA2lLVEO_SnF-pCiD4IQA

 

Freedom Libraries and the Fight for Library Equity

Freedom libraries in the south provided Black residents with access to spaces and books, whether in church basements or private homes.

https://apple.news/ArlMLVuJKRniOZANfA2w2WQ

 

READING ON THE COUCH. Stuff right next to it. The near-empty bookshelves are near-empty because recently I’ve lugged bag after bag of books to the Salvation Army store. I’ll eventually keep 15-20. It feels good. Like a dorm room.

 

Hanya Yanagihara’s Audience of One

…It’s still easy to find readers talking online, with odd pleasure, about the emotional devastation that reading “A Little Life” brought upon them. TikTokers post videos of themselves crying after finishing the book.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/17/hanya-yanagiharas-audience-of-one

 

A little film about great ‘New Yorker’ cartoonist George Booth. You’ve seen his stuff:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AYlRXgnapj8&feature=share

 

Politics & Prose becomes first unionized bookstore in D.C. This is from the ‘Washington Post’:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/03/politics-and-prose-first-unionized-bookstore-dc/