Books
Horse-Riding Librarians Were the Great Depression's Bookmobiles
During the Great Depression, a New Deal program brought books to Kentuckians living in remote areas
The Great Uprising: How a Powder Revolutionized Baking
Before baking powder hit the scene in 1856, making cake was not a piece of cake
Happy Bloomsday! Too Bad James Joyce Would Have Hated This
Joyce infamously disliked the idea of being memorialized
Three Very Modern Uses For A Nineteenth-Century Text Generator
Andrey Markov was trying to understand poems with math when he created a whole new field of probability studies
257-Year-Old Coloring Book Rediscovered in St. Louis
The Florist contains 60 drawings, and recommends watercolor pigments like “gall-stone brown”
Anthony Burgess' Legendary Dictionary of Slang Lives
The author and linguist gave up the book after realizing how enormous the task of keeping up with slang would be
Dylan Finally Delivers on Nobel Prize Lecture
The reclusive singer-songwriter muses on literature and music in characteristic style
Scholars Rediscover Forgotten Edith Wharton Play
“The Shadow of a Doubt” had been overshadowed by over 100 years of history
Late Fees No Longer Exist at Salt Lake City Libraries
If you kept a book longer than you should have, you're in luck
Stephen Talty's Guide to Culture
The detective novelist offers his picks for movies, tv shows and Twitter accounts to follow
Learning to Read May Reshape Adult Brains
How literacy changed the bodies of a group of Indian adults
More Than 250,000 Bibliophiles Are About to Descend on "The Town of Books"
The Hay Festival of Literature kicks of its 30th anniversary festival in Wales
What the Unisphere Tells Us About America at the Dawn of the Space Age
A towering tribute to the future past—and one man’s ego
The Librarian of Congress Weighs In on Why Card Catalogs Matter
The tech is gone, but it’s not forgotten. Carla Hayden explains why
The Icelandic Translation of 'Dracula' Is Actually a Different Book
The mysteries of this Gothic classic aren't over yet
Drag Queens Are Public Libraries’ Newest Storytellers
Early reading just got a lot more glamorous
The True Story Behind Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Her Mixed-Up Files
Fifty years ago, author E.L. Konigsburg wrote her children's literature classic that highlighted the wonder of museums
Handwritten 'Harry Potter' Prequel Stolen
Police and J.K. Rowling have urged fans not to buy the magical manuscript
Why People Love Southern Gothic
From the 19th century to S-Town, it’s a compelling genre that’s as flawed as its most grotesque characters
This Infamous 19th-Century Birth Control Pamphlet Got Its Writer Imprisoned
Charles Knowlton did three months hard labor and was fined $50
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