How Barnes & Noble went from Villain to Hero (from the New York Times):

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/arts/barnes-noble-bookstores.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

NYC public libraries to provide free ebook versions of banned books. 

https://apple.news/Ahd2ppxwfQsiF9YqxYZNW5w

Inside Someone Else’s Head: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan (from LA Review of Books):

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/inside-someone-elses-head-a-conversation-with-jennifer-egan/

 

How growing up in L.A. shaped Amanda Gorman’s poetry. (from latimes.com):

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-04-13/amanda-gorman-call-us-what-we-carry-book-club

Gilbert Gottfried Was More Than Just a Funny Voice

The late comedian helped move stand-up beyond the realm of the merely observational and create space for the absurd. (from ‘The Atlantic’): 

https://apple.news/AP4HQPgNkRE2mBiPsk98dwg

 

By the window where I sit in my branch library two and 1/2 blocks from where I live. I don’t get much accomplished at the library that I couldn’t do at home. But I do put a coat or a sweater on to go out. I do turn the lights out in the apartment before I leave. I do take the day’s NYT to leave at the library for anyone who might want it. I do see things along the walk to the library. I see books, some new ones, at the library. I could go on about other things and people I see outside my apartment when I venture out. I don’t think it’s all good this trend to stay at home. 

What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?

We booksellers have seen it all. (from slate.com):

https://slate.com/culture/2022/04/in-praise-of-good-bookstores-jeff-deutsch-of-the-seminary-co-op-on-the-art-of-bookstore-browsing.html

 

Graduating seniors from the city’s schools should be able to read as well as their teachers.

 

Ocean Vuong Is Still Learning

An interview in ‘The New Yorker’:  The author of “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” and the new poetry collection “Time Is a Mother” has won a MacArthur “genius” grant, yet keeps his white-belt approach to writing.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/ocean-vuong-is-still-learning

 

I’m reading her big book now.

Poland's Olga Tokarczuk leads race for International Booker Prize

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/polands-tokarczuk-a-finalist-for-international-booker-prize/2022/04/07/ead65628-b661-11ec-8358-20aa16355fb4_story.html