New bookstore alert: leaves is a second-hand bookstore that just opened at 140 Nassau Avenue by McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. (from ‘Time Out/New York’):

https://apple.news/AQt8MaLlRSdOAVQJhHevNpw

 

Required Reading: The Five Books That Changed Playwright Lynn Nottage’s Life (from ‘Vogue’):

https://apple.news/AcNbX20slQEGN5gxsrSVnZg

 

UK’s Cressida Cowell renews call for £100m investment in primary school libraries

The outgoing children’s laureate has transformed six primary schools through her Life-changing Libraries initiative, but says a ringfenced fund is needed for lasting impact (from ‘The Guardian’):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/08/cressida-cowell-renews-call-for-100m-investment-in-primary-school-libraries?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A New Way to Choose Your Next Book

Most books are sold online, where it’s impossible to replicate the experience of browsing in a brick-and-mortar store. Book-discovery apps aim to change that. (from nytimes.com):

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/books/new-book-apps-tertulia.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

Woodward and Bernstein thought Nixon defined corruption. Then came Trump. (in today’s Washington Post):

https://apple.news/AdKUbF4HCTcyZGo6Hih5L9A

At the just-opened exhibit at the Morgan Library which I went to today I liked the wide deep margins on the pages of Ulysses in the book published in 1922 in Paris. (That’s my shadow marring its beauty.)

Some remarks by Michael Bloomberg at the dedication of the library he created in his parents’ name in Medford, Massachusetts where he was raised:

‘Growing up, the Medford Public Library was so much more than a building with books. It was a space to learn, and to expand our horizons, and to dream. It means so much to my family that we were able to dedicate that institution to my parents today. 

Let's not forget: Right now, America's libraries are under attack from self-appointed censors who want to ban books that explore history, race, and gender and identity. That kind of censorship is deeply troubling, because it diminishes the freedom and opportunity that have always defined the mission of libraries, and it diminishes our country's highest ideals, which brought our family here more than a century ago.’