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• 4am starts & spinach smoothies: Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown on how to write a bestseller - "As he sets out to spill his secrets in an online masterclass, Brown talks about bad reviews, his habit of hanging upside down and the challenge of writing fiction in the age of Trump."
• 5 ChatGPT Prompts To Improve Your Writing (With Instant Results) - "Writing is a valuable skill, but getting good takes intentionality. Learn, then practice. Repeat. ChatGPT can help (with the right prompts, of course). Compelling copy will propel your business to new heights when customers connect with your sales pages, resonate with your emails, and believe your social media posts really get them. Don’t miss the chance to make connections with your words. Get good at this today."
• 5 summer books & other things to do at home - "Whether you’re looking for a distraction or just spending a lot more time at home, you can’t beat reading a book." Gates Notes. The Blog of Bill Gates.
• 6 books to help understand the US & its politics - "From the pursuit of happiness to the economy - in the run-up to the election, here are some books that offer context, insight and perspectives on the US."
• 7 Books Every Man Should Read - "This selection of seven essential books is tailored to broaden your horizons and equip you with timeless wisdom and practical insights into various aspects of life. From navigating the intricacies of human relationships to developing resilience in adversity, these books offer a roadmap to a more fulfilled, well-rounded existence."
• 7 books governments didn't want people to read - "The brutal attack on author Salman Rushdie in New York on August 12 has reignited discussions around censorship in literature."
• 7 ChatGPT Prompts To Improve Your Writing - "While ChatGPT can be an impressive imitator, it can never generate your unique voice and perspective. It can, however, be a powerful tool for improving your writing, whether you’re penning business articles or important emails. It all starts with the right prompts. Here are seven that you can use to level up your writing skills."
• 7 digital libraries you can visit from your couch - "Check this out: You can still celebrate National Library Week, which begins Sunday, at home. Here are seven digital libraries with specialized collections you can visit to honor the contributions of our nation's libraries and library workers."
• 10 Best Books Through Time - "Each fall, the editors of the Times Book Review select the best fiction and nonfiction titles of the year. Now, we call this list the “Ten Best Books” and have done so since 2004."
• 10 best-dressed characters in fiction - "Authors from Charlotte Brontë to Suzanne Collins have imagined clothes for their characters that are almost as expressive as their wearers."
• 10 Best Fiction Books of 2018 - "The best of this year’s fiction deals with prisons of all kinds — literal ones, but also dead-end jobs, luxury apartments and uncomfortable home states."
• 10 Most Borrowed Books of All Time at the New York Public Library - "As it approaches a milestone 125th anniversary, the New York Public Library is looking back on its most borrowed books of all time. One of the largest and most iconic public library systems in the U.S., the New York Public Library has 92 locations across the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island."
• 10 of the best novels set in Germany - that will take you there - "The ‘ignominy of division and joy of reunification’ are only part of the journey when exploring Germany through its fiction."
• 10 of the most entertaining drinking bouts in literature - The Guardian.
• 10 of the richest book deals of all time - The Guardian.
• 16 Best True Crime Books of All Time - "From classics like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood to newer page-turners like Ron Stallworth's Black Klansman, these books are must reads."
• 17 Best Places to Download Free Audiobooks in 2024 - "Get thousands of free audiobooks at OverDrive, LibriVox, Digitalbook.io, and other websites."
• 19 Ingenious Design Books to Inspire You in 2017 - Wired.
• 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books - "Do you love reading - but all too often find yourself just scrolling through your phone or watching TV? Here is how to get lost in literature again."
• 21 Shakespearean quotes you didn't even know you were using - The Telegraph.
• 25 Best Coffee Table Books For Your Home in 2022 - "How do you make something like a coffee table a bit more appealing to the naked eye? You top it with some visually-enticing reading material, of course. Not just any reading material will do, however. What you need is something intriguing, unique, and artistic, helping to accent your home’s natural beauty and invite guests into the living area for a quick browse."
• 25 books that will blow your mind - Business Insider.
• 25 Expert Tips to Reading WAY More Books This Year - "Instead of trying to power through a book that you're not enjoying, put it down."
• 25 Famous Poems That Everyone Should Read - "Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment required to finish a novel. You can read most famous poems in a single sitting, some taking just a minute or two, and they give you a window into a new way to think."
• 30 great opening lines in literature - The Telegraph.
• 31-day literary diet for January - "Looking for a more positive new year resolution? From a Shirley Jackson short story to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 30-minute Ted talk, nourish your mind with our one-a-day selection of literary treats."
• 33 of the best books of 2023 - "Sandra Newman to Justin Torres. From a reimagining of Orwell's 1984 to the story of Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi, these are BBC Culture's picks of the best fiction of the year."
• 50 great thrillers by women - " From Agatha Christie to Gillian Flynn."
• 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years - "The New York Times’s book critics select the most outstanding memoirs published since 1969."
• 100 best books of the 21st century - "Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000."
• 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - "As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers - with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review."
• 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century - list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the Modern Library, an American publishing company owned by Random House.
• 100 Best Novels - The Guardian.
• 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years 2024 - "To celebrate 50 years of the Sunday Times bestseller list, we have calculated the nation’s most popular books over the past five decades - how many have you read?"
• 100 greatest British novels - BBC.
• 100 greatest novels of all time - The Guardian.
• 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 | TIME - "The fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that entertained and enlightened us."
• these are the 100 must-read books of 2024 | TIME - "Gripping novels and short stories, eye-opening histories, moving memoirs, and more. These are the books that entertained and enlightened us."
• 100 Notable Books of 2016 - The New York Times.
• 100 Notable Books of 2017 - The New York Times.
• 100 Notable Books of 2018 - "The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review."
• 100 Notable Books of 2023 - "Each year, we pore over thousands of new books, seeking out the best novels, memoirs, biographies, poetry collections, stories and more. Here are the standouts, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review."
• 460 Years Ago, Shakespeare Was Born Here. Or Somewhere - "Every year, millions flock to Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to visit the house known as Shakespeare’s Birthplace. But was he really born there? A whole industry depends on it."
• 1968 sci-fi that spookily predicted today - "In the first of BBC Culture’s new series on fiction that predicted the future, Hephzibah Anderson looks at the work of John Brunner, whose vision of 2010 was eerily accurate."
• ‘1984’ Is a 2017 Must-Read - The New York Times.
• 2021: Fiction to look out for - "With a host of dazzling second novels in the offing, plus the return of big hitters such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Jon McGregor, 2021 is shaping up to be a special year."
• 2021: Nonfiction to look out for - "Biographies of Philip Roth and DH Lawrence, the curious death of Robert Maxwell, and dispatches from the Covid frontline."
• 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature - was awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory".
• 2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead - "The best fiction and nonfiction to look forward to in the new year, from Zadie Smith to Simon Schama, Margaret Atwood to Rory Stewart."
• A master of self-promotion: letters reveal how Philip Roth ‘hustled’ for prizes - "Correspondence found in archives shows how ‘pushy’ novelist used ‘collusion, networking and back-scratching’ to win literary awards."
• A Most Wanted Man! The dozen mistresses of John le CarrÉ are 'just the tip of the iceberg' - "John le Carré is reported as saying he didn't want to 'humiliate' his wife Jane."
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama review - behind the power & the pomp - "America’s former commander-in-chief shares his character flaws and fears for the presidency in this poetic, introspective account of his childhood and first term in the White House."
• A Simple Way to Build Intimacy: Reading Aloud - "Why adults should read aloud to one another, and a few recommendations to get you started. Start with something short. Find any opportunity to read. Focus on your connection rather than getting every word right."
• AbeBooks - "Passion for books." AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books. Millions of brand new books, used books, rare books, and out-of-print books are offered for sale through the AbeBooks websites from thousands of booksellers around the world. Readers can find bestsellers, collectors can find rare books, students can find new and used textbooks, and treasure hunters can find long-lost books.
• Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf & other literary works penned by dictators - ABC News.
• Agatha Christie's race problem - "Death on the Nile and addressing racism in Agatha Christie. With Kenneth Branagh's second Hercule Poirot film out, Christie is hot Hollywood property once more. But how should adaptors navigate her books' attitude to race, asks David Jesudason."
• A.I. Can Write Poetry, but It Struggles With Math - "A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past."
• AI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines - but not fooling anyone - "Prominent science fiction and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld announced it would pause submissions after a flood of AI spam. It’s not the only outlet getting AI-generated stories."
• Airport novel - represent a literary genre that is not so much defined by its plot or cast of stock characters, as much as it is by the social function it serves. An airport novel is typically a fairly long but fast-paced novel of intrigue or adventure that is stereotypically found in the reading fare offered by airport newsstands for travellers to read in the rounds of sitting and waiting that constitute air travel.
• Algonquin Round Table - (1919 - ca. 1929). Was a group of New York City writers, critics, actors, and wits. Gathering initially as part of a practical joke, members of "The Vicious Circle", as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929. At these luncheons they engaged in wisecracks, wordplay, and witticisms that, through the newspaper columns of Round Table members, were disseminated across the country.
• All the Books Carrie Bradshaw & Co. Have Been Reading in And Just Like That... - "Eagle-eyed fans will have noticed a lot of books appearing on the series so far - Carrie is a writer and literature is her forte, after all. But many have clearly been put there to be noticed by viewers, with some (hello, Miranda’s book on sobriety) even having their own storylines. It turns out a lot of work went into carefully selecting every single one of the books—including the hundreds visible in background shots of Carrie’s bookshelves - and Sarah Jessica Parker helped to select them herself."
• Allen Ginsberg’s inner circle - in pictures - "A new exhibition of the Howl author’s intimate personal photographs finds him hanging out with Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Patti Smith."
• Amazon Kindle is in a state of decline - "The Kindle is having lots of issues. Excessive battery drain, disappearing Kindle Unlimited Books, slow and sluggish performance."
• Amazon Kindle Paperwhite - "The best Kindle 2024. The best Kindle for most people." The Amazon Paperwhite is the ideal electronic book reader, and you can take it just about anywhere you might take a regular old book. You can read in the bathtub, or by the pool, with less worry than you'd have holding a paperback, because the Paperwhite can get wet, no problem. You can read in bed and the Paperwhite will adjust to a warm backlight to make your eyes more comfortable.
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• Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (32 GB) - "With auto-adjusting front light, wireless charging, 6.8" display, and up to 10 weeks of battery life - Without Lockscreen Ads - Black."
• An Everyman Museum to Celebrate American Writers - The New York Times.
• Anthony Horowitz: ‘I don’t have breakfast. If I can hold off eating, I work better’ - The Guardian.
• APPOINTMENT READING - in e-book literature, Appointment Reading is episodic delivery schedule published in sequential electronic installments as recurring TV shows or serialized podcasts.
• Apropos of Nothing review - Woody Allen's times & misdemeanours - "Dropped by the original publisher after a staff protest, the film-maker’s autobiography can be brutally honest but also a bore, and neither he nor Mia Farrow come out of it well."
• Are Audiobooks As Good For You As Reading? Here’s What Experts Say - TIME Magazine.
• Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate sues Netflix for giving Sherlock Holmes too many feelings - "The estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has sued Netflix over its upcoming film Enola Holmes, arguing that the movie’s depiction of public domain character Sherlock Holmes having emotions and respecting women violates Doyle’s copyright."
• ASK US 24/7 - "Chat With A Librarian." A service of cooperating New York State libraries. - "We can find answers to your reference questions and provide information on your local library."
• Assouline - since 1994. "Where Culture Meets Luxury." Today, through its exceptionally crafted books, home fragrances, and objets d’art, Assouline invites the intellectual and curious into a world of beauty. Here, we invite you to learn the history of the brand, which was founded in Paris in 1994 by Prosper and Martine Assouline.
• A. S. W. Rosenbach - (1876-1952). American collector, scholar, and seller of rare books and manuscripts. In London, where he frequently attended the auctions at Sotheby's, he was known as "The Terror of the Auction Room." In Paris, he was called “Le Napoléon des Livres”, which translates to “The Napoleon of Books." Many others referred to him as “Dr. R.”, a “Robber Baron” and “the Greatest Bookdealer in the World”. He bought and sold numerous items throughout his life, including eight Gutenberg Bibles, more than 30 Shakespeare's First Folio, a copy of the Bay Psalm Book and the manuscripts of Ulysses and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The life-time total of his purchases is estimated to be worth more than $75,000,000 in 2019.
• At home with umberto eco & his book collection - video 1:20.
• Authors' Club 1891 - "Founded in 1891 to provide a place where writers could meet and talk, the Authors’ Club is one of Britain’s oldest literary institutions, and at the same time one of its most modern, inclusive and welcoming. Within the magnificent premises of the National Liberal Club in Whitehall, we provide a home from home for writers, editors, agents and all those professionally engaged with literature and the publishing industry."

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• Banned Books Week - annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read, draws attention to banned and challenged books, and highlights persecuted individuals. Held during the last week of September since 1982.
• ‘Barefoot bookseller’ sought to run island bookshop in Maldives - "Luxury resort says island is virtually Covid-free and wants a live-in book lover to provide guests with bespoke help for their ‘reading journeys’."
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• Bay Psalm Book - the world's most expensive printed work sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York on November 26, 2013 for US$14.165.000 million.
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works - international agreement governing copyright, which was first accepted in Berne, Switzerland, in 1886.
• best book covers ever? - "What makes an iconic book cover?"
• best books of 2022, according to cultural tastemakers - "If you've reached the end of the year feeling as though you didn't read enough, we've got you. Here are some of the best books of the year according to notable authors, artists, image-makers and other cultural tastemakers."
• best science long reads of 2019 - "From the search for new dinosaur skeletons in the "Badlands" of Wyoming, to the push to return humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972, here's a festive selection of the best science and environment long reads published by the BBC this year."
• best short stories for every taste & mood - "The perfect lockdown reading choices for whatever your state of mind."
• Bill Gates: The Billionaire Book Critic - The New York Times.
• Bill Gates' Bookshelf - The Bill Gates Notes.
• Bill Gates: This Book Is 'One of the Most Important' - TIME.
• Blinkist - since 2012. "Big ideas in small packages." Blinkist lets you read the key lessons from 3000+ nonfiction books in 15 min or fewer. Start your free trial today and find out how.
• ‘Blooks: The Art of Books That Aren’t’ Explores the World of Fake Books - The New York Times.
• Bob Woodward’s New Book Will Chronicle Trump’s ‘Harrowing’ Presidency - "The famed Watergate reporter’s “Fear: Trump in the White House” will be published in September."
• Book & Author Luncheon - (1948-1974). Was created in 1938 by the American Booksellers Association. The program provided a prominent forum for authors to speak to the public about their works in one of the largest markets for books in the United States, New York City.
• Book clinic: what can I read to help me to reduce my stress levels? - "A health worker seeks a reading cure and is prescribed a wide variety of treatments."
• Book size - the size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover. A series of terms is commonly used by libraries and publishers for the general sizes of modern books, ranging from folio (the largest), to quarto (smaller) & octavo (still smaller).
• book that could corrupt a nation - "The Well of Loneliness: 'The most corrosive book ever.' While its literary value has been questioned, and many of its values now appear outdated, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness still holds a place as a beacon for sexual self-discovery, writes Hephzibah Anderson in BBC Culture's Banned Books series."
• Bookplate - also known as ex-libris [Latin, "from the books of..."], is usually a small print or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the inside front cover, to indicate its owner. Simple typographical bookplates are termed "booklabels".
• books are being used to train AI. No one told the authors - "Almost 200,000 books are being used to train artificial intelligence systems by some of the biggest companies in technology. The problem? No one told the authors. The system is called Books3, and according to an investigation by The Atlantic, the data set is based on a collection of pirated e-books spanning all genres, from erotic fiction to prose poetry. Books help generative AI systems with learning how to communicate information."
• books as interior design? It's a trend with a tale - "The appeal of bookshelf wealth and its ensuing outrage tells us something uncomfortable about our culture. 'Bookshelf wealth' has been named 2024’s “first major design trend”. This is the new name for a home stacked with hundreds of carefully curated books and it is situated as the interior design version of fashion’s 'quiet luxury'."
• Books by women priced 45% lower, study finds - The Guardian.
• books that makes you dumb - (unofficial) SAT (intelligence) test based on your taste in books.
• BOOKSELLING - Wikipedia.
• Bookshelf wealth is the latest way to show people you're genuine - "Bookshelf wealth is an interior design trend that rejects minimalism or any overly-curated look. Bookshelf wealth refers to displaying books you've really read, not color-coordinated showpieces. The cozy aesthetic emphasizes showing off your individual interests and personality."

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• Can a book make you vegan? - "The novel Tender is the Flesh imagines a world where carnivores have turned to cannibalism. It’s the latest artwork to fly the flag for plant-based diets, writes Elizabeth Sulis Kim."
• Can a List of Someone’s Stuff Double as Literature? - The New York Times.
• can you deliberately write a blockbuster book? - The Guardian.
• Cannabis discovered in tobacco pipes found in William Shakespeare's garden - The Telegraph.
• CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ? BLAME THE FONT, NOT FORGETFULNESS - Wired.
• CENTER FOR INQUIRY LIBRARIES - a blog of CFI Libraries, libraries in general, and librarianship.
• Charles Dickens letters show author's awareness of fame - "The 11 letters reveal the author's reading habits, writing projects and his frustration at the loss of a Sunday postal service."
• Charles Edward Mudie - (1818-1890). English publisher and founder of Mudie's Lending Library and Mudie's Subscription Library, was the son of a second-hand bookseller and newsagent. Mudie's efficient distribution system and vast supply of texts revolutionized the circulating library movement, while his "select" library influenced Victorian middle-class values and the structure of the three-volume novel.
• Clifford Irving - "The Official Website of Clifford Irving."
• CliffsNotes Study Guides - since 1958. "Book Summaries, Test Preparation." CliffsNotes is the original (and most widely imitated) study guide. CliffsNotes study guides are written by real teachers and professors, so no matter what you're studying, CliffsNotes can ease your homework headaches and help you score high on exams.
• COFFEE TABLE BOOK - definition & explanation.
• Colette: The most beloved French writer of all time - "An icon in her native France, Colette's scandalous life and works still captivate readers 150 years on from her birth."
• Comic book convention - event with a primary focus on comic books and comic book culture, in which comic book fans gather to meet creators, experts, and each other.
• Common abbreviations of book terms - "Learn about the most common abbreviations of book terms."
• Commonplace books - (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century. Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces are used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts. Each one is unique to its creator's particular interests but they almost always include passages found in other texts, sometimes accompanied by the compiler's responses. They became significant in Early Modern Europe.
• Confessional writing - in literature, confessional writing is a first-person style that is often presented as an ongoing diary or letters, distinguished by revelations of a person's heart and darker motivations.

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• DAILYLIT - read books online by daily email.
• 'dangerous' books too powerful to read - "Forty years on from the launch of Banned Books Week, censorship is once again on the rise. To launch a new BBC Culture series, John Self considers the long and ignoble global history of book-banning."
• Daphne du Maurier: Novelist who traced past to a French debtors' jail - "Dame Daphne du Maurier, the English novelist who died in 1989, was fascinated by her French heritage."
• Darwin Online project - since 2024. - "The world's largest resource on Darwin." The Darwin Online project released a 300-page catalog that compiles the original 7,400 titles and 13,000 volumes originally owned by Darwin. The catalog includes 9,300 links to copies of the library contents that are available for free online, inviting the public to peruse what Darwin read.
• Das Kapital: ‘Amusing insight’ revealed in Marx's ‘Das Kapital’ gift to Darwin - "'With most of its pages remaining uncut, it seems Darwin gave up any attempt to read it,' reads the statement, which adds that Darwin took almost three months to send a dry note of thanks to Marx. February 12 marked the 215th anniversary of Darwin’s birthday, and a research team virtually reassembled his impressive library in his honor. The Darwin Online project released a 300-page catalog that compiles the original 7,400 titles and 13,000 volumes originally owned by Darwin. The catalog includes 9,300 links to copies of the library contents that are available for free online, inviting the public to peruse what Darwin read."
• David Bowie reveals his favourite 100 books - The Telegraph.
• David Bowie’s top 100 books - the complete list - BowieBookClub.
• Deep background - term that is used in the United States, though not consistently. Most journalists would understand "deep background" to mean that the information may not be included in the article but is used by the journalist to enhance his or her view of the subject matter, or to act as a guide to other leads or sources. Most deep background information is confirmed elsewhere before being reported.
• DDC | DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION - proprietary system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876.
• Demosthenian Literary Society - founded in 1803. Debating society at The University of Georgia in Athens, GA, U.S.A.
• Diegesis - style of fiction storytelling that presents an interior view of a world which ....
• "Digital Fugitive" Library Customers - 21st Century Library Blog.
• 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting - "The 1992 accusation that the film-maker sexually assaulted his young daughter has made him a pariah, yet he was never charged. In this exclusive interview, he explains why he is done with treading carefully."
• Do You Have 'Bookshelf Wealth'? - "A TikTok home-décor trend has irked some bibliophiles. Now there's a new entry to the canon: bookshelf wealth. On TikTok and other digital platforms, there has lately been much ado about people who own a great number of books and - this is critical - have managed to stage them in a pleasing manner. If you've ever seen a Nancy Meyers movie, the look might ring a bell."
• Does reading fiction make us better people? - "Reading fiction has been said to increase people’s empathy and compassion. But does the research really bear that out?"
• Does the e-book revolution spell disaster for print books? - "Do you love the smell of yellowed paper, the feel of parchment against your skin, the weight of a leather-bound volume in your hands? Bibliophiles like myself would agree that there is nothing that can truly replace the genuine feel of a physical book. The traditional ‘book’ form that we love so much has been around for centuries, so it is hard to think of it as something replaceable. And yet in a few short decades, modern technology has been making an ambitious attempt to do the very thing."
• Donald Trump insists he’s writing ‘book of all books’ but big publishers unlikely to touch it - "Figures at major houses said book might stoke ‘staff uprising’ and it would be ‘too hard to get a book that was factually accurate’."
• Donald Trump: Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success - "'A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.' - Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth, revealing how one of the country’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White House."
• Drones Club - recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. It is a gentlemen's club in London. Many of Wodehouse's Jeeves and Blandings Castle stories feature the club or its members. The Drones Club is in Mayfair, London, located in Dover Street, off Piccadilly. A drone being a male bee that does no work, living off the labour of others, it aptly describes the contemporary Edwardian stereotype of rich, idle young club members, though some of the members have careers and even jobs.

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• E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead - The New York Times.
• Ebook vs paper: which reading medium is better for the environment? - "Ereader makers have taken steps to make digital reading greener, but how sustainable is it?"
• Epistolary novel - novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. Recently, electronic "documents" such as recordings and radio, blogs, and e-mails have also come into use.
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• Ernest Hemingway's Louis Vuitton library trunk - Recently found in The Ritz, Paris, the trunk is a veritable trove of the author’s works, including a long lost draft of A Moveable Feast.
• Ernest Hemingway's published works littered with errors, study claims - "Experts find hundreds of errors in the writer’s works, mostly made by editors and typesetters."
• Erratum - (plurals: errata, corrigenda) (comes from Latin: errata corrige) is a correction of a published text. An erratum is most commonly issued shortly after its original text is published.
• Essential John le CarrÉ - "His clever, melancholic mind produced some of the most enduring heroes in spy fiction. Here are his best books." The New York Times.
• EUROPEANA - "Think Culture." Search through the cultural collections of Europe. It links you to over 53 million digital items (2018).
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• Everyman's Library - series of reprints of classic literature, primarily from the Western canon. It is currently published in hardback by Random House. Everyman's Library was conceived in 1905 by London publisher Joseph Malaby Dent, whose goal was to create a 1,000-volume library of world literature that was affordable for, and that appealed to, every kind of person, from students to the working classes to the cultural elite. By 1975, Dent's vision had been well surpassed, as Everyman's Library consisted of 994 titles published in 1,239 volumes.
• Ex-Libris - a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th century), also known as ex-libr?s (Latin for "from the books (or library) of"), is usually a small printed or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the front endpaper, to indicate ownership.
• Explore 671,628 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections - The New York Public Library.
• 'Extraordinary' 500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time - "The Libro de los Epítomes was a catalogue for Hernando Colón’s 16th-century collection, which he intended to be the biggest in the world."

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• Feud: Capote vs the Swans: How a scandalous Truman Capote story exposed the secrets of US high society - "A star-studded new miniseries from Ryan Murphy looks at how the author betrayed the confidence of some of America's most elite women - and destroyed his career in the process."
• Fingerprint Bookmark Band - MoMA Design Store.
• Five New Fashion Books For Your Coffee Table - The New York Times.
• Forbidden love: the original Dorian Gray revealed, direct from Oscar Wilde’s pen - "Published for the first time, the handwritten manuscript of the 1891 novel shows a writer struggling with Victorian morality."
• Forgotten Books - "Read free books online at Forgotten Books." 484,473 free books. Largest online eBooks library.
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• Fornasetti - since 1940. "Italian decorative arts company." Bookends.
• Frame Story - literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers from a first story into another, smaller one (or several ones) within it. The frame story may also be used to allow readers to understand a part of the story, then jump to another part that can now be understood.
• Fran Lebowitz on life without the internet: ‘If I’m cancelled, don’t tell me!’ - "The writer is easy to spot if you spend long enough in New York, but interviews have to be over her landline, as she is permanently offline. She reveals why Andy Warhol wasn’t so smart, and how she learned to love a good party."
• FRANKLIN EBOOKMAN - designs, develops, publishes, and distributes globally innovative electronic language learning solutions on handheld devices, memory media cards. Also distributes more than 52,000 book titles in electronic format.
• From Rockford, Illinois To Paris, Discover ‘Louis Vuitton: Virgil Abloh’ - "Louis Vuitton: Virgil Abloh is the testament of a relationship that changed the course of fashion history. Virgil Abloh started as Men’s Artistic Director at Louis Vuitton in June 2018. It marked the starting point of the beginning of a luxury new era including inclusivity, diversity and empowerment. The book written by his close collaborator Anders Christian Madsen offers an intimate incursion in the life of a great man born to break boundaries, not only in fashion but also in art, design, architecture and music. 'Virgil was not only a designer of genius, a visionary, he was also a man with a beautiful, sound and great wisdom.' Bernard Arnault."

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• gentleman's library - "It used to be said that an English gentleman should have a personal collection of at least 10,000 books. The bare minimum an erudite sophisticate could own without feeling embarrassed and inadequate."
• Gentleman's Library Through the Ages - "For this article, I thought it might be interesting to look at not only how a gentleman’s library had changed through the years, but perhaps how the gentlemen have changed as well. So let’s look at some gentleman’s libraries in the 1700s, 1800s, and now."
• George & Ann - "John le Carré wrote one of the strangest marriages in fiction."
• George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now? - "Much of the author’s work may have fallen into public ownership in the UK, but there are more restrictions on its use remaining than you might expect, explains his biographer."
• German library pays £2.5m for 'friendship book', 400 years after it first tried to buy it - "Philipp Hainhofer’s Das Große Stammbuch, signed by influential 17th-century Europeans, acquired by Herzog August Bibliothek."
• Get Hundreds of Free Cozy Mystery E-books This Week - "Stuff your Kindle with hundreds of free mystery and mystery-adjacent e-books. The Cozy Mystery Book Blast event is this week, and you can get hundreds of contemporary, historical, and paranormal e-books for free."
• Getty Search Gateway - allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.
• Good Reads - "Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia." Social cataloging website founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007. The website allows individuals to freely search Goodreads' extensive user-populated database of books, annotations, and reviews. Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. They can also create their own groups of book suggestions and discussions.
• GOOGLE BOOKS - a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans.
• greatest snobs in literary history - The Guardian.
• greatest spy novel ever written? - "Why John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is the ultimate spy novel. As it turns 60, Adam Scovell celebrates the gritty power of this tale of a disillusioned British agent who's the opposite of James Bond, which was rooted in Le Carré's own experiences in espionage."
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• Grolier Club - private club and society of bibliophiles in New York City. Founded in January 1884, it is the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America. The Grolier Club maintains a research library specializing in books, bibliography and bibliophily, printing (especially the history of printing and examples of fine printing), binding, illustration and bookselling. The Grolier Club has one of the more extensive collections of book auction and bookseller catalogs in North America.
• Gutenberg Bible - the first major book printed in the West using movable type. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book in the West.
• Gutenberg Museum Mainz - since 1900. "Experience the history of printing, writing, and books in the Gutenberg-Museum. The Gutenberg-Museum, which lies opposite the cathedral in the heart of the old part of Mainz, is one of the oldest museums of the book and printing in the world."

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• Han Kang wins Nobel Prize in literature 2024 for ‘intense poetic prose’ confronting human fragility - "The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her 'intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.' Han, 53, began her career with a group of poems in a South Korean magazine, before making her prose debut in 1995 with a short story collection."
• Hans P. Kraus - (1907-1988). Was an Austrian-born book dealer described as "without doubt the most successful and dominant rare book dealer in the world in the second half of the 20th century" and in a league with other rare book dealers such as Bernard Quaritch, Guillaume de Bure and A.S.W. Rosenbach.
• Harold Robbins's cocaine-fuelled bonkbusters sold 750 million copies — and they're far better than Fifty Shades - The Telegraph.
• HARPER COLLINS - founded in New York City in 1817. One of the world’s leading English-language publishers.
• Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library - "The decision to find a 'respectful final disposition' for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections."
• Hay Festival - annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for ten days from May to June. Devised by Norman and Peter Florence in 1988, the festival was described by Bill Clinton in 2001 as "The Woodstock of the mind".
• Helvetica: The font that changed the world - "The game-changing typeface made to go unnoticed." Even if you've never heard of it, Helvetica has been part of your life. This typeface is, very literally, everywhere: computer screens, billboards, buildings, street signs and posters.
• Hemingway code hero - sometimes more simply referred to as the Hemingway hero, is a stock character created by Ernest Hemingway. The character is easily identified by its strong masculinity, enthusiasm for life and often excessive indulgence in its pleasures. The code hero was embraced by readers in the 1920s as a kind of literary antidote to the increasingly sensitive, emasculated American male.
• Hemingway, Jack London & Unabomber Typewriters Go to auction - "You Can Buy Hemingway’s Typewriter. But Would You Use It? Coming to auction is a clattering collection of machines once owned by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Temple, Andy Rooney and ... the Unabomber."
• Here’s how your favorite classic novel made a computer feel - "Where big data meets high-school English class — plus Harry Potter."
• how Bob Woodward pinned Trump to the page - "For Rage, the Watergate and Washington Post veteran spoke to the president for hours on record. The result is a book for the ages."
• How Celebrity Memoirs Got So Good - "One way to explain this shift is fairly simple: the move toward unfiltered storytelling tracks with the dominance of social media, a tool that has undeniably transformed the celebrity landscape. Gone are the days of the inaccessible, mysterious A-lister of the tabloid era, whose public perception was determined largely by the whims of paparazzi. Now, with platforms like Instagram, access to public figures and the inner workings of their lives are just a screen swipe away - and firmly within their control, making authenticity (or at least the performance of it) the key to attracting a loyal audience."
• How Kindle novelists are using ChatGPT - "An interview with an AI early adopter."
• How loneliness & creativity can work together - "Artists and writers have long been drawn to solitude - but why is that, and what can we learn from them?"
• How our brains work when we love a book or audiobook - "Empathy and imagination help us to engage when we enjoy a book or an audiobook - but why do we feel so sad when we come to the end? Howard Timberlake survives the post-book blues."
• How Switzerland inspired Frankenstein - The Telegraph.
• HOW TECHNOLOGY SHAPES THE WAY WE READ - "The State of Reading: A Wired Investigation."
• How the ‘brainy’ book became a publishing phenomenon - The Guardian.
• HOW TO FIND A BOOK - Wikibooks.
• How to get seriously good at reading - "Are you a slow reader? Or a fast reader? Either way, here's some tips to help you get better at reading - and take more in."
• How to Get Your Mind to Read - The New York Times.
• How to Navigate the Proust-Industrial Complex - "In 'Living and Dying With Marcel Proust,' Christopher Prendergast presents an appreciation and a guide to the writer and his masterpiece."
• How to read the James Bond books in order - "Here is the definitive reading order for the complete collection of James Bond novels from 1953 to present day."
• How to Share Books & Movies Through Amazon Household - "The retail giant offers a way to share your Prime benefits - including Kindle titles, audiobooks, and free shipping - with others in your home."
• how to use an iphone to locate books - "Can't spot a book on your shelves? Your iPhone will find it. Using your iPhone's Live Text and OCR (optical character recognition) you can locate books even on the most chaotic shelves in seconds. Here's how."
• How to write a Man Booker novel - The Guardian.

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• I lied about living in New York to fit into the literary bubble - not anymore - "New York felt like the center of the publishing world; it took a long time to learn a writer can flourish outside its gates."
• I Love My Kindle, but I Still Don't Buy eBooks From Amazon - "I can't say I'm a big fan of Amazon, but it's hard to deny that Kindle eReaders are pretty great. Despite my feelings about the company, I have a Kindle Paperwhite. However, I don't buy any ebooks from Amazon—that's the line I draw. Kindles have very good integration with Libby, the app for libraries. It's super easy to browse for books in the Libby app on my phone and nearly instantly send one to my Kindle."
• I never liked e-readers, but the Kindle app on my phone has converted me - "Having found that I needed an e-reader to continue a series of books, I decided to turn my phone into an electronic book."
• I Paid My Child $100 to Read a Book - "Every lifelong reader knows why reading books is important. But how do you convey all that to a reluctant 12-year-old?"
• ‘I read all 27,000 Marvel comics & had a great time. Here’s what I learnt’ - "Did Dark Reign foresee Trump? Was Iron Man about US military might? Who was Unbeatable Squirrel Girl - and was her superpower really non-violent conflict resolution? Only one man knows ..."
• I read all those Trump tell-alls. Here's what I learned - "Hardly a day goes by without another book about the Trump White House - by a devoted former aide or a disgruntled ex-employee. Together, what do they tell us about the man?"
• I spent $7 million solving the Jack the Ripper case - The Telegraph.
• 'I'm often faster': Milan's bicycling bookseller takes on the online giants - "Luca Santini took his fight against Amazon and others to the streets after having to close his bookshop."
• IAN FLEMING - official website for Ian Fleming, Ian Fleming Publications. Information on Ian Fleming books and James Bond.
• Ian Fleming and the World of James Bond - "Delve into the world of James Bond and his creator, Ian Fleming. This exhibition explores the James Bond novels, showcases the manuscripts for novels, and features Fleming as a book collector." Lilly Library, Indiana University.
• Ibid. - Latin, short for ibidem, meaning "in the same place") is the term used to provide an endnote or footnote citation or reference for a source that was cited in the preceding endnote or footnote.
• Iceberg Theory - (sometimes known as the "theory of omission") is a style of writing (turned colloquialism) coined by American writer Ernest Hemingway.
• Idem - Id. (masculine and neuter) and ead. (feminine) (Latin, short for idem and eadem, "the same") denote the previously cited source (compare ibid.). Id. is particularly used in legal citations. They are also used in academic citations replacing the name of a repeated author.
• ILAB | International League of Antiquarian Booksellers - 22 national associations and some 2000 rare booksellers in 32 countries under one roof.
• Imprint - an imprint of a publisher is a trade name under which a work is published.
• In search of lost toast: Paris show reveals origins of Proust’s madeleines - "Previous versions of French novel featured stale bread, toast and biscuit as trigger for author’s childhood memories."
• In the Footsteps of Marcel Proust - "The legendary filmmaker William Friedkin recalls his obsession with 'In Search of Lost Time,' and his attempt to see the novel in real life."
• Incunable - book, pamphlet, or broadside (such as the Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474) that was printed—not handwritten—before the year 1501 in Europe.
• Index Librorum Prohibitorum - ("List of Prohibited Books") was a list of publications deemed heretical or contrary to morality by the Sacred Congregation of the Index, and Catholics were forbidden to read them without permission.
• INSIDE GOOGLE BOOKS - "Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you."
• INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS | ILAB - "The World's Best Books, the World's Best Booksellers."
• internet archive - since 1996. "As of February 2021, the Internet Archive holds over 29 million books and texts, 8.7 million movies, videos and TV shows, 629,000 software programs, 16 million audio files, 3.8 million images, 224,000 audio files, and 550 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine."
• INTERNET BOOK DATABASE - online database with information about books and authors with an added social networking component. It currently contains information on over 300,000 books (over 910,000 ISBNs), 92,000 authors and 4,000 series making it one of the largest online databases of author and book information.
• INTERNET BOOK LIST - online database with information about books, authors, and short stories.
• INTERNET BOOK DATABASE OF FICTION - currently holds information for over 35,800 books and 4730 authors.
• Irma Boom - Dutch graphic designer who specializes in book making. Boom has been described as 'The Queen of Books', having created over 300 books and is well reputed for her artistic autonomy within her field. Her bold experimental approach to her projects often challenges the convention of traditional books in both physical design and printed content.
• Is it possible to work 22-hour days? Danielle Steel says it is the secret of her success - "The prolific romance novelist has described her ‘brutal, exhausting’ process. Can she really work such long hours - and does it make her a role model?"
• Is there anything more shaming than shelves full of books you will never read? - The Guardian.
• ISBN | INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER - official website.
• ISSN | INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER - official website.
• It was a dark and stormy night - often-mocked and parodied phrase considered to represent "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing", also known as purple prose.
• It's My Privilege: Glorious Memoirs by the Very Rich - "A look back at a time when the super-wealthy felt they had nothing to lose by letting readers inside their gilded corridors."

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• Jane Austen: her 50 greatest characters - The Telegraph.
• JD Salinger estate finally agrees to ebook editions - "Author’s son explains that wish for accessibility has persuaded trustees to look past his father’s dislike of digital media."
• JK Rowling says she is survivor of domestic abuse & sexual assault - "Author reveals experiences in essay after facing criticism over her comments on trans issues."
• J.K. Rowling stupefies fans by revealing the truth around the origins of 'Harry Potter' - "'If you define the birthplace of Harry Potter as the moment when I had the initial idea, then it was a Manchester-London train,' Rowling tweeted."
• John le CarrÉ: The Spy Novelist Who (Mostly) Kept Quiet - "'A Private Spy,' a collection of the British writer’s letters, offers glimpses of unguarded moments and ruffled feathers."
• John le CarrÉ’s son on writing a new George Smiley novel - "Nick Harkaway was a successful novelist in his own right when his brothers asked him to continue their late father’s spy series. Could he pull it off?"
• John Steinbeck was a sadistic womaniser, says wife in memoir - "Gwyn Conger Steinbeck’s newly unearthed book tells of troubled marriage to author."
• Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel prize in literature - "The Norwegian author of novels, short stories and Pinteresque drama was praised by the judges for ‘giving voice to the unsayable’."
• Julian Fellowes Project, ‘Belgravia,’ Treads New Digital Ground - The New York Times.
• Julian Fellowes’s BELGRAVIA - story in 11 episodes published week by week via an app in the tradition of Charles Dickens.

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• Karl Ove KnausgÅrd: The Third Realm by Karl Ove KnausgÅrd review - a visionary epic - "Book three in the Norwegian novelist’s Morning Star series takes in devils, black metal and revelation, and provides a masterclass in what fiction can offer."
• Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway review - this continuation of le CarrÉ is a treat - "A new story about cold war spymaster George Smiley written by John le Carré’s son expertly evokes the atmosphere of the originals."

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• LCC | Library of Congress Classification - system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress (U.S.A.).
• Lectern - reading desk with a slanted top, on which documents or books are placed as support for reading aloud, as in a scripture reading, lecture, or sermon. A lectern is usually attached to a stand or affixed to some other form of support.
• Legendary Paris bookshop reveals reading habits of illustrious clientele - "Newly digitised lending cards from Shakespeare and Company uncover the choices of luminaries including Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein."
• Library binding - method of binding serials, and re-binding paperback or hardcover books, for use within libraries. Library binding increases the durability of books, as well as making the materials easier to use.
• library thing - "Catalog your books online." LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
• Life outside the window: Marcel Proust at 150 - "As Proustophiles the world over commemorate the 150th anniversary of the author’s birth on July 10 and look ahead to the centenary of his death in November next year, the time is ripe to reflect on Proust and his writing and to take stock of his status in contemporary literature and culture."
• LINOTYPE - download fonts from classic to cool.
• LITERATURE - Wikipedia.
• Literature Infographics - "A unique way to learn about the characters, themes, authors, and literary devices of your favorite books - visually!"
• LIX - readability measure indicating the difficulty of reading a text.
• London's most infamous spy locations - The Telegraph.
• Longform.org - since 2010. Recommends new and classic non-fiction from around the web. Articles can be read on a browser or saved to read later with Readability, Instapaper, Pocket or Kindle.
• longueurs - a dull and tedious portion (as of a book).
• Losing Yourself in a Good Book - The New York Times.
• Lost Proust stories of homosexual love finally published - "Written in the late 1890s but held back from publication, the nine tales in Le Mystérieux Correspondant are due out this autumn."
• Ludvig Holberg’s Writings - "Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) is one of the main figures of the Scandinavian Enlightenment. His numerous and multifaceted writings occupy a central position in the literature of both Denmark and Norway. This is the first digital critical edition of Holberg’s collected writings. The texts are fully searchable and equipped with commentaries, introductions, critical apparatus, and facsimiles."

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• MADELEINE MOMENT - involuntary autobiographical memory, is a subcomponent of memory that occurs when cues encountered in everyday life evoke recollections of the past without conscious effort.
• Madoff Talks review: definitive life of an ‘extraordinarily evil’ man - "Jim Campbell exchanged hundreds of emails and letters with the financier whose crimes brought him a 150-year sentence."
• Manuscript shows how Truman Capote renamed his heroine Holly Golightly - "Until the final typescript of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which is set to be auctioned, the author had planned to call her Connie Gustafson."
• Marcel Proust at 150 - "As Proustophiles the world over commemorate the 150th anniversary of the author’s birth on July 10 and look ahead to the centenary of his death in November next year, the time is ripe to reflect on Proust and his writing and to take stock of his status in contemporary literature and culture."
• Marcel Proust on What Writing Is - "In the last volume of 'In Search of Lost Time,' Proust famously describes the transformation of himself as an author."
• Marcel Proust’s different home addresses - Hôtel Littéraire le Swann.
• Martin Amis: a life in pictures - "Amis, the author of 15 novels and one of the leading voices of his generation, has died aged 73."
• Mary Trump on her Uncle Donald: ‘I used to feel compassion for him. That became impossible’ - "She is a psychologist who used to deny being related to Donald – now she has written an explosive bestseller about him. She discusses his racism, incompetence, cruelty and why he never laughs."
• Mary Trump says President 'is not going to get better' - "Mary Trump says President 'is not going to get better and he is without question going to get worse'."
• Mary Trump thumps Donald - "The president’s niece follows John Bolton’s right hook with a sharp left to the ribs. Revenge Trump-style is grimly engrossing."
• Mary Trump's book breaks record with mammoth sales - "Mary Trump's tell-all book had sold a staggering 950,000 copies by the end of its first day on sale, publisher Simon & Schuster said Thursday."
• Mary Trump’s book: eight of its most shocking claims about the president - "Trump ‘paid someone to take his exams’. President emotionally ‘scarred’ by abusive father. Trump shaped by ‘sociopath’ father, niece writes in memoir."
• Math.Answers.com - informative guide for both students and educators with extremely helpful articles on many forms of mathematics.
• Mein Kampf: Amazon bans sale of most editions of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf - "Ban, which also includes other Nazi propaganda books, follows decades of campaigning by Holocaust charities."
• Melania by Melania Trump review - a blame-dodging masterclass - "Ex-first lady strategically avoids many key subjects in memoir seemingly at odds with Republican party."
• MEMORY OF THE WORLD - UNESCO's programme aiming at preservation and dissemination of valuable archive holdings and library collections worldwide.
• Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming sells 10 million copies - "Michelle Obama's memoir is on course to become the most popular autobiography to date, according to its publisher."
• Millennial, Book & Candle - "This old-fashioned reading aid is lit."
• Mimesis - term used in literary criticism and philosophy that carries a wide range of meanings which include imitatio, imitation, nonsensuous similarity, receptivity, representation, mimicry, the act of expression, the act of resembling, and the presentation of the self.
• Miscellany - collection of various pieces of writing by different authors.
• Mission impossible: trying to flog a stolen 500-year-old Dante manuscript - The Guardian.
• Morocco leather - (also known as Levant, the French Maroquin, or German Saffian from Safi, a Moroccan town famous for leather) is a soft, pliable form of leather widely used for gloves and the uppers of ladies' shoes and men's low cut shoes, but traditionally associated with bookbindings, wallets, linings for fine luggage, and the like. The finest grades of Morocco leather are goatskin, but by the late 19th century other skins often were substituted in practice, particularly sheepskin and split calfskin.
• Most Overrated Books of All Time - Ranker.
• Moving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves - The New York Times.

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• Napoleon’s Kindle: Discover the Miniaturized Traveling Library That the Emperor Took on Military Campaigns - "'The Emperor wishes you to form a traveling library of one thousand volumes in small 12mo and printed in handsome type.'"
• new book about Ferrari that costs as much as a car - "Designed to be as exclusive as a car from Maranello, a new retrospective book on Ferrari by Taschen will be limited to only 1,947 copies - celebrating Ferrari's foundation year of 1947 - and cost up to $30,000."
• New font could improve memory - "Researchers create 'memory-boosting' font."
• New York City's eight best literary venues - "From The Chelsea Hotel to The Algonquin to Albertine, NYC is full of famous literary hubs that have shaped the city's culture. Follow this guide to experience eight of the very best."
• Nielsen BookScan - since 2001. Data provider for the book publishing industry. BookScan compiles point of sale data for book sales.
• Norwegian library with unreadable books - "Some of the world's most celebrated authors have written manuscripts that won't be published for a century - why? Richard Fisher visits the Future Library in Oslo to find out."
• Nothing but the truth: the legacy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four - "Every generation turns to it in times of political turmoil, and this extract from a new book about the novel examines its relevance in the age of fake news and Trump."

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• OCLC | Online Computer Library Center - since 1967. "The world's libraries. Connected." More than 27,000 libraries in 86 countries and territories use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials.
• OCN - OCLC assigns a unique control number (referred to as an "OCN" for "OCLC Control Number") to each new bibliographic record in the WorldCat. OCNs are particularly useful as identifiers for books and other bibliographic materials that do not have ISBNs (e.g., books published before 1970).
• Octavo - an octavo is a book or pamphlet made up of one or more full sheets of (e.g. A2 paper) on which 16 pages of text were printed, which were then folded three times to produce eight leaves.
• Oedipus vex: French philosopher disowns son over novel - "Jean-Paul Enthoven forgave Raphaël for relationship with Carla Bruni but autobiographical novel too much."
• On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun - The New York Times.
• On the Trail of a Lover Boy in the Age of Enlightenment - "Seducer, scammer, courtier: Giacomo Casanova hovers like a governing spirit over the art of the 18th century in a sumptuous new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts."
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• Open Library - "Open Library is yours to borrow, read & browse." The World's classic literature at your fingertips. Over 1,000,000 free ebook titles available.
• Oscar Wilde graphic novel reimagines author’s life in exile - "The Divine Comedy of Oscar Wilde reflects on author’s final years as an exile in Paris."
• OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL
• Oxford University Press Museum - "This small museum preserves and displays historic books, documents and printing equipment of the Oxford University Press."

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• PAPERBACK - Wikipedia.
• Patriot by Alexei Navalny review - last testament - "The late Russian activist’s memoir is an insightful, sharp, even humorous account of his fight against Putin’s regime - and a warning to the world."
• PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author - "PG Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, was the most English novelist imaginable. His comic world was old-fashioned well before he died 45 years ago - crammed with disapproving aunts in hats, eccentric aristocrats and wealthy young men about town getting into scrapes. But he has countless fans around the world - not least in India, a country Wodehouse never set foot in."
• PICARESQUE NOVEL - Wikipedia.
• Plagiarism software pins down new source for Shakespeare's plays - "Scholars say the likelihood of George North’s unpublished manuscript A Brief Discourse of Rebellion sharing words and features with the Bard’s plays by chance is ‘less than one in a billion’."
• Polyglot (book) - book that contains side-by-side versions of the same text in several different languages. Some editions of the Bible or its parts are polyglots, in which the Hebrew and Greek originals are exhibited along with historical translations. Polyglots are useful for studying the history of the text and its interpretation.
• Pretentious, impenetrable, hard work ... better? Why we need difficult books - "This year’s Booker-winner Milkman has been criticised for being challenging. But are we confusing readability with literary value?"
• Print Wikipedia - "The entire English language Wikipedia in nearly 7,500 volumes."
• Professional confessionals: why are memoirs about work topping the charts? - "From Adam Kay’s tales from the NHS to the Secret Barrister’s inside view of the justice system, readers are still gripped by what goes on in elite jobs."
• Proust, ChatGPT & the case of the forgotten quote - "In search of a half-remembered passage among the French writer’s voluminous work, I turned to AI to help me find it. The results were instructive - just not about Proust."
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• Proust Ink - "A Website Celebrating the Life and Works of Marcel Proust." Join renowned Proust biographer William C. Carter as he guides you through In Search of Lost Time. Read the novel and enjoy the lectures on your own schedule. 30 multimedia lectures with reading assignments, supplementary files, & live webcams.
• Public domain - works in the public domain are those whose intellectual property rights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable. Examples include the works of Shakespeare and Beethoven.
• Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse - The New York Public Library.
• Publisher wins rights to Voynich manuscript, a book no one can read - The Guardian.

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• Rare original copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio sells for £2m - "400-year-old edition of playwright’s first collected book of plays including Macbeth and Twelfth Night auctioned at Sotheby’s."
• Read by Famous - "From Their Hands To Yours." We sell books that were owned and read by people who have achieved high levels of recognition in their particular fields. Not copies of titles they have read, but the actual books that these people owned and read.
• Reading a book you hate? Stop right now - "Life is too short to indulge in things that do not give a great return on your energy, emotion or time."
• Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire - "When her career hit a wall, the Oscar-winning actor built a ladder made of books - for herself, and for others."
• Rehal (book rest) - also called a "Qur'an stand" by English-speaking Muslims, is an X-shaped, foldable book rest or lectern used for placing holy books during recitation. It is designed to collapse into a flat form for portability and storage when not in use.
• Retracing Truman Capote’s Moment in the Mediterranean Sun - "Before the author reached the height of his fame, he escaped to seaside idylls in southern Italy and Spain to write, swim and bask under the sun with his great love."
• Rocambole - fictional adventurer created by Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, a 19th-century French writer. The word rocambolesque has become common in French and other languages to label any kind of fantastic adventure.
• Roman À Clef - definition & explanation.
• Rosenbach Museum & Library - since 1954. Philadelphia museum and library located within two 19th-century townhouses. The historic houses contain the collections and treasures of Philip Rosenbach and his younger brother Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach. The brothers owned the Rosenbach Company, which became the preeminent dealer of rare books, manuscripts and decorative arts during the first half of the 20th century.
• Rowan Atkinson: why I just couldn't say no to Maigret - The Telegraph.
• Rudy Giuliani’s book is silent on $150m award for defamation but noisy on election lies - "Disgraced and disbarred former NYC mayor and Trump lawyer also says Biden administration is persecuting him."
• Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene review - addicted to danger - "A new biography, by Richard Greene, insists there was more to the author than ‘sex, books and depression’."

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• Sangorski & Sutcliffe - firm of bookbinders established in London in 1901. It is considered to be one of the most important bookbinding companies of the 20th century, famous for its luxurious jeweled bindings that used real gold and precious stones in their book covers.
• Shakespeare Documented - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
• Shakespeare in Modern English? - The New York Times.
• Shakespeare, the Book Tour - The New York Times.
• Shakespeare timeline: follow the plot of the playwright's life - The Guardian.
• Shakespeare's 400th anniversary: 'man of Stratford' to be celebrated in 2016 - The Guardian.
• Shakespeare's grave to be radar scanned despite famous curse - The Telegraph.
• Shakespeare's language not as original as dictionaries think - The Guardian.
• Shakespeare's last act: a torrent of twisted fantasies - The Guardian.
• Shakespeare's London home found by historian - "Shakespeare home in London, where he wrote 'Romeo and Juliet,' found by historian."
• Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend - "Metropolis, To The Lighthouse, and the final Holmes stories are all entering the public domain."
• SHVOONG.COM - "The Global Source for Summaries & Reviews". Shvoong is a global hub for Summaries & Reviews on virtually every topic imaginable. On Shvoong you’ll find book reviews, book summaries, movie reviews, website reviews, make money online reviews, business reviews, product reviews, travel reviews, and much more.
• Significant form - refers to an aesthetic theory developed by English art critic Clive Bell which specified a set of criteria for what qualified as a work of art.
• Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound - "When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty. We need a new literacy for the digital age."
• Sleep in your favourite author's home - "From Agatha Christie to Ian Fleming to Jane Austen, here are five famous author homes-turned hotels where bookworms can lay their heads."
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• Solander box - book-form case used for storing manuscripts, maps, prints, documents, old and precious books, etc. It is commonly used in archives, print rooms and libraries.
• Sorry, You Can’t Speed Read - The New York Times.
• SPEED READING - definition & explanation.
• Spritz Reinvents Reading on Mobile Devices - 500 words per minute.
• Stalag fiction - short-lived genre of Nazi exploitation fiction from Israel that flourished in the 1950s and early 1960s, and stopped after the time of the Eichmann Trial, because of a ban by the Israeli government.
• Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts review - the marks of a leader - "Joseph Stalin owned about 20,000 books, many with jottings in the margin. Does his library hold the key to his character?"
• Stephen King, Not Just the Guy Who Makes Monsters - The New York Times.
• Steve Jobs’ Favorite Books & Bands - "Steve Jobs once famously said that people don’t read anymore, but he did, and amongst the revelations of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Apple’s co-founder are his favorite books and bands."
• Stolen-Book.org - database is for books reported stolen after 15th June 2010.
• Storytelling - Wikipedia.
• succès d'Éstime - success, as of a book, play, etc, based on the appreciation of the critics rather than popular acclaim.

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• Why Taylor Swift is a literary giant - by a Shakespeare professor - "Sir Jonathan Bate is a world authority on the Bard - and a long-time fanboy of the American singer. Here, he shall compare her (favourably) to the greats of poetry and prose. Plus, play our lyric-guessing game."
• Temples for the Literary Pilgrim - The New York Times.
• Ten ways in which Shakespeare changed the world - The Guardian.
• Test Your Book Smarts - The New York Times.
• The American Mercury - American magazine published from 1924 to 1981. It was founded as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured writing by some of the most important writers in the United States through the 1920s and 1930s. After a change in ownership in the 1940s, the magazine attracted conservative writers.
• The app that makes writing less lonely - "If you see a writer in a movie, most likely she (or he) will be tapping on a laptop. But many young writers are doing it on mobile phones, and sometimes in teams."
• 'The Art of Her Deal': Melania Trump's prenup renegotiation - "Melania Trump was in no rush to move into the White House. That’s when she renegotiated her prenup, a new book says."
• The Big Read - survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation's best-loved novel of all time. The year-long survey was the biggest single test of public reading taste to date, and culminated with several programmes hosted by celebrities, advocating their favourite books.
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• The Book Collector - founded in 1952 by Ian Fleming. Published quarterly. Online resource: a place where librarians, book collectors and booksellers meet. "The only journal in the world that deals with book collecting, but it is much more than that – a bridge that joins together collectors, librarians and booksellers, and all who are interested in books, to have, to read, to enjoy in any way."
• The Booksellers - 2019 American documentary film that was directed, edited, and produced by D.W. Young. It was also executive produced by Parker Posey, who provides narration in the film. The film explores the world of antiquarian and rare book dealers and their bookstores. It focuses primarily on booksellers in New York City, including Adina Cohen, Naomi Hample and Judith Lowry, the three sisters of the Argosy Book Store, Stephen Massey, founder of Christie’s NY Book Department, and Nancy Bass Wyden, owner of the Strand Bookstore. Other prominent people featured in the film include Fran Lebowitz, Gay Talese, Justin Croft, Zack Hample, Susan Orlean, William S. Reese, A. S. W. Rosenbach, Jay S. Walker, and Kevin Young.
• The Capote Tapes: inside the scandal ignited by Truman's explosive final novel - "He partied with high society America but caused outrage when he spilled their secrets. Ebs Burnough talks us through his new film about Answered Prayers - the ‘smart, salacious’ novel Capote never finished."
• The Coming Shakespeare Extravaganza - 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
• THE DIGITAL DEAD SEA SCROLLS - in partnership with Google.
• The English towers & landmarks that inspired Tolkien's hobbit sagas - "Book identifies middle England sources for sites of key scenes from Middle-earth books."
• The Essential Stephen King - "The author has dominated horror fiction, and arguably all popular fiction, for decades. Here's where to start."
• The Grand Tour. The Golden Age of Travel - "Relive a bygone age of discovery and romance with this XL volume of vintage travel ephemera from 1869 to 1939. Packed full of posters, tickets, menus, precious turn-of-the-century photochroms, as well as quotes from literary travelers like Jules Verne or F. Scott Fitzgerald, this book evokes all the adventure of such classic trips as the Orient Express, the Grand Tour, and the Trans-Siberian Railway." TASCHEN Books.
• The grim truth behind the Pied Piper - "Writers like the Grimm Brothers and Robert Browning may have shaped the Pied Piper legend into art, but it turns out the story is likely based on an actual historical incident."
• The Hunt for the Nazi Loot Still Sitting on Library Shelves - "The Nazis left the task of creating inventories for the millions of books they seized to a special task force, members of which are seen here in Estonia."
• The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson review - a bravura feat - "Six years on from her translation of the Odyssey, Wilson revels in the clarity and emotional clout of Homer’s battlefield epic."
• The Iliad: The ultimate story about war - "A new translation of Homer's Iliad has just been published by Emily Wilson, who was the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. The classicist and author Natalie Haynes talks to her about what the epic poem can tell us today."
• THE INTERNET SPECULATIVE FICTION DATABASE - database of bibliographic information on science fiction and related genres such as fantasy fiction and horror fiction.
• The Last Politician review: the case for Joe Biden, polling be damned - "Franklin Foer delivers the goods on a president stuck with stubbornly low ratings and ever-present worries about his age."
• The man who made Shakespeare famous - The Telegraph.
• The 'mini Trump' who built a kingdom out of books - CNN travel.
• The Most Famous Photograph of Poets Ever Taken - "This 1948 photo is a portrait of an era in American poetry - both for whom it includes and for whom it left out." The photograph was published in Life magazine and immediately became iconic. Andy Warhol saved a copy of it. In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called it “one of the most remarkable gatherings” of poets in the 20th century. It’s been reprinted in magazines, newspapers, and biographies. It is an extraordinary portrait of American poetry and literature at the end of World War II - both for whom it includes and for whom it leaves out.
• The most shocking tell-all memoirs - "Mary Trump and the most shocking family secrets. The publication of a tell-all memoir from the US President’s niece is the latest in a long line of bitter - and entertaining - family feuds played out on the page."
• THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF WRITING (NAW) - "A new start for talented writers." (UK).
• The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard - "Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking."
• The plague writers who predicted today - "Survival, isolation, community and love are explored in these plausible, prescient books. Jane Ciabattari on the novels that tell us ‘we’ve been through this before and we’ve survived’."
• the Renaissance printer who brought porn to Europe - The Guardian.
• The right man for the job: how Bob Woodward pinned Trump to the page - "For Rage, the Watergate and Washington Post veteran spoke to the president for hours on record. The result is a book for the ages."
• The rise of apocalyptic novels - "In our times of uncertainty, the latest fiction about climate disaster is unsettling - but also strangely comforting."
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• The Roxburghe Club - since 1812. Exclusive bibliophilic and publishing society based in the United Kingdom. The Club has had a total of 344 members since its foundation. The circle has always been an exclusive one, with just one "black ball" (negative vote) being enough to exclude an applicant. Since 1839 the number of members at any one time has been limited to forty.
• the secret life of an Amazon reviewer - The Guardian.
• THE SHAKESPEARE CENTRE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE - at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon.
• The single most valuable writing skill - "How mastering this will make your writing compelling and authoritative."
• The Strange Triumph of "The Little Prince" - The New Yorker.
• ‘The Tale of Genji’ Is More Than 1,000 Years Old. What Explains Its Lasting Appeal? - "The book is often described as the world’s first novel and a touchstone of Japanese literature. But some of its themes, including its take on gender and power, have echoed over centuries."
• The ultimate book lover's stay: Sleep in your favourite author's home - "From Agatha Christie to Ian Fleming to Jane Austen, here are five famous author homes-turned hotels where bookworms can lay their heads."
• 'They know us better than we know ourselves': how Amazon tracked my last two years of reading - "Amazon knows more than just what books I’ve read and when – it knows which parts of them I liked the most."
• This decade we’ve become obsessed with reading - and writing - about ourselves - "It’s no longer just celebrities whose lives fascinate us. The experience of the non-famous matters more than ever before."
• This is the most expensive work of literature ever to sell at auction - "Rare copy of Shakespeare's First Folio sells for record $10M."
• Thomas Piketty's new magnum opus published on Thursday - "French economist’s Capital and Ideology expands on themes in Capital in the 21st Century, which sold 2m copies."
• Top 10 books about self-improvement - "In time for new year resolutions, a cultural historian chooses some of the best guides to making a better life, dating back to some of our earliest literature."
• Top 10 books by Charles Dickens - "In his journalism as much as his fiction, Dickens’s turbocharged imagination is truly incomparable. Biographer AN Wilson shares his favourite books."
• Top 10 crime novels of all time ranked & Agatha Christie is not No. 1 - "The hardest, and possibly most controversial, list of the best thriller and mysteries out there: No.1 A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin."
• Top 10 dinner parties in fiction - "From Arthurian feasts to awkward moments with Ian McEwan and mealtime at the Macbeths, these miniature dramas are literary staples. Tuck in."
• Top 10 end-of-the-world novels - from Ballard to Pratchett - "Fresh from writing his own first sci-fi thriller, physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili chooses favourite books that tackle the Earth in peril."
• Top 10 golden age detective novels - "For some, ‘cosy crime’ of the 1920s and 30s is class-ridden and formulaic – but classic authors such as Agatha Christie and Josephine Tey paved the way for modern fiction as we know it."
• Top 50 Richest Authors - Celebrity Net Worth.
• Top writers choose their perfect crime novel - The Guardian.
• Trust no one: how Le CarrÉ's Little Drummer Girl predicted our dangerous world - "Secret interrogations, elaborately staged deceptions, conspiracies and murder ... John le Carré’s murky spy thriller could not be more relevant."
• Tsundoku - the condition of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them.
• Turk's Head Tavern - 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London, W1D 5PL. The first meeting place of 'The Literary Club' which was founded by Joshua Reynolds and Samuel Johnson in 1764.
• 'Twaddle': librarians respond to suggestion Amazon should replace libraries - The Guardian.
• TYPEFACES - definition & explanation.

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• UBUWEB - a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.
• Ulysses by James Joyce - Amazon.com.
• Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary 'masterpiece' - "In the spring of 1921, Paris bookseller Sylvia Beach boasted about her plans to publish a novel she deemed a masterpiece that would be 'ranked among the classics in English literature'."
• Unfinish’d sympathy: can literature get over reading disability morally? - "The ‘crookednesse’ of Richard III’s back was presented by Shakespeare as an expression of his villainy while Quasismodo embodied saintly unworldliness. Are we ready to see disability without symbolism?"
• Unknown Hemingway short story Pursuit As Happiness published - "Autobiographical tale tells of hunt for ‘the biggest goddam marlin that ever swam in the ocean’ and has strong echoes of The Old Man and the Sea."

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• VANITY PRESS - Wikipedia.
• Vatican's Secret Archives no longer officially secret after renaming - "Pope says new name for trove of priceless papers will be the Vatican Apostolic Archives."
• Voynich manuscript - illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and it may have been composed in Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish-Samogitian book dealer who purchased it in 1912.

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• Was Aladdin Based on a Real Person? Here’s Why Scholars Are Starting to Think So - TIME Magazine.
• Wattpad - since 2006. Writing community in which users are able to post articles, stories, fan fiction, and poems, either through the website or the mobile app. This gives people the chance to have their creative works available to a wider audience. The content includes work by undiscovered writers, published writers, new writers, with all users being given an equal chance to write popular works.
• We Are What We Read - The New York Times.
• What is the best age to learn to read? - "In some countries, kids as young as four learn to read and write. In others, they don't start until seven. What's the best formula for lasting success? Melissa Hogenboom investigates."
• What makes The Great Gatsby great? - The Guardian.
• What the butler saw: sex secrets of French presidents' palace revealed - "For 300 hundred years staff at the Elysée witnessed men flaunting their power over women, but no longer, says author of a new book."
• What to do with your collection of books after you’ve finished reading them - "Books can be displayed in a variety of ways around the home for a visually pleasing look."
• What travel writers are reading right now - "Tim Ecott asks fellow travel writers which books are helping them to spread their wings and escape the lockdown – in their imaginations at least."
• What was Dracula really like? 550-year-old clue to life of Vlad the Impaler emerges - "Scientists are hoping ‘historical biomolecules’ on a 15th-century missive written by Vlad Dracula, the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s vampire count, will reveal more about him."
• What's in a phrase? Shakespeare probably - The Telegraph.
• When the Creator of Sherlock Holmes Exonerated a Convicted Murderer - The New York Times.
• Why 1922 was literature's greatest year - "Joyce's Ulysses and Eliot's The Waste Land are rightly hailed as masterpieces - but they unfairly overshadow the year's other great books, writes John Self."
• Why Amazon knows so much about you - "How Jeff Bezos built his data machine."
• why armchair travelling is back in fashion - "Reissued tales of classic journeys are being snapped up as Britons long for escape while having to stay at home."
• Why do women write under men’s names? - "From George Eliot and the Brontës to JK Rowling, women writers have often chosen to publish their work using a pseudonym. It’s time to smash the myths about why they do it."
• Why Harper Lee Struggled to Write Again After To Kill a Mockingbird - TIME Magazine.
• Why is New York's most famous library getting into bed with the Saudi crown prince? - "Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is going to be sponsoring an event at the iconic New York Public Library. This reputation-laundering shouldn’t be allowed to happen."
• Why Julian Fellowes's new app Belgravia won't start a revolution - The Telegraph.
• Why Lady Macbeth is literature's most misunderstood villain - "Shakespeare's murderous queen has long been demonised as a wicked seductress. Yet Frances McDormand is the latest actor to show she deserves far more understanding, writes Hanna Flint."
• Why Shakespeare's Richard III became a controversial villain - "The notorious monarch is one of the Bard's most iconic characters. But the truth about him is increasingly contested, as is the depiction of his disability, writes Tracey Sinclair."
• WHY SO MANY FANTASY NOVELS ARE OBSESSED WITH ACADEMIA - "THE BEST FANTASY debut of 2018 has a problem. It was also the best fantasy debut of 2009. And 2007. And 1997, 1985, 1982, and 1968."
• Why the world's most difficult novel is so rewarding - "Marcel Proust's groundbreaking 1922 masterpiece In Search of Lost Time is considered daunting and difficult by many, but has been misunderstood and is actually universally appealing, writes Cath Pound."
• Why There’s No ‘Millennial’ Novel - The New York Times.
• why thrillers are leaving other books for dead - The Guardian.
• why we love to track our watching & reading habits - "Sites such as Letterboxd and GoodReads encourage us to document our cultural consumption. But does gamification get in the way of actually enjoying the arts?"
• Why we should be worried about Amazon's real-life bookshops - The Guardian.
• Why worriers & wordsmiths have a lot in common: quiz - The Guardian.
• Why you should read this out loud - "Most adults retreat into a personal, quiet world inside their heads when they are reading, but we may be missing out on some vital benefits when we do this."
• Why You Should Start Binge-Reading Right Now - "Ditch Netflix for a novel. And not just because a novelist is telling you to."
• Wilfrid Voynich - (1865-1930). Was a Polish revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile. Voynich operated one of the largest rare book businesses in the world, but he is best remembered as the eponym of the Voynich manuscript.
• WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY - a talent & literary agency.
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - complete works free online.
• William Shakespeare, Playwright & Poet, Is Dead at 52 - The New York Times.
• William Shakespeare’s father's shady dealings helped to fund son’s plays - The New York Times.
• Woody Allen comes out fighting - "The 1992 accusation that the film-maker sexually assaulted his young daughter has made him a pariah, yet he was never charged. In this exclusive interview, he explains why he is done with treading carefully."
• Woody Allen's memoir is the most damning indictment yet - "The film director’s own words reveal him to be a scheming, sexist, creepy adventurer."
• WORLD BOOK DAY - designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading.
• WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BOOK - The Birds of America by John James Audubon sold at Sotheby's auction on December 7, 2010 for GBP7,321,250.
• WorldCat - "The World's Largest Library Catalog." WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.
• Would American Psycho be published today? How shocking books have changed with their readers - "Do disturbing novels reflect an extreme reality or are they just titillation? Hanya Yanagihara, Leïla Slimani and others on why they set out to shock us."
• Writer's home - locations where writers lived. Frequently, these homes are preserved as historic house museums and literary tourism destinations, called writer's home museums, especially when the homes are those of famous literary figures.

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• You Could Soon Read An Entire Harry Potter Book In Under 90 Minutes With This App - The Huffington Post.
• You May Soon Binge Books Just Like You Binge Netflix - Wired.

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• Zisska & Schauer - since 1893. Munich, Germany. International specialists in rare antiquarian books and prints.