Wednesday, February 7, 2024

 


The ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Was a Pilgrimage Site in the Wilderness. Can it Hold Up in a Museum?

The rusty coach where Chris McCandless spent his final days captured the imagination of people all over the world and inspired hundreds of seekers to make dangerous treks to reach it. Now a dedicated team of curators in Alaska have given it new life as a fascinating exhibit—one that tells the story not just of McCandless, but of modern Alaska.

https://apple.news/ALJRB92zPQuWmXGeTNGzXKQ

Tuesday, February 6, 2024


John Lewis finally gets a full biography
. Raymond Arsenault’s ‘John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community’ documents the life of the ‘Conscience of Congress’ in detail

Saturday, February 3, 2024

 


Cast as Criminals, America’s Librarians Rally to Their Own Defense

As libraries become battlegrounds in the nation’s culture wars, their allies are fighting to preserve access to their collections and keep themselves out of jail, or worse.


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Saturday, January 27, 2024

 


No one knows what ‘creative nonfiction’ is. 

That’s what makes it great.


In ‘The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting,’

Lee Gutkind traces the fuzzy boundaries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/01/27/lee-gutkind-literary-fist-fighting-review/

Monday, January 22, 2024

 


How Gen Z and millennials in the US have an unlikely love affair with their local libraries

Why might Gen Z and millennials – sometimes characterised as attention-addled homebodies – still see value in trips to the public library?

https://apple.news/A2QF9iNlyQhycUu_H507Wwg