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It’s Not Just US Booksellers Noticing A Gaping Maw Coming For Used Books

The booksellers are wondering how they’re supposed to feel. Tey’re "are “uncomfortable with the idea of books being destroyed - even if they admit not every title needs to be saved.” - BBC

The Dream Of A ‘Red State Hollywood’ Usually Founders On A Couple Of Things

“No one wants more uncertainty, and certainly no one wants this chaos. And let’s face it, no one really wants to move from Beverly Hills to Nashville.” - The New York Times

Maybe Celebrities Shouldn’t Be Recording Personal Videos For People Who Pay?

A Heated Rivalry actor had to “pause” his account on Cameo after possibly revealing that they're filming two seasons of the hit show at once. - CBC

Founding Literary Publications As One’s Home Is Shelled To Rubble

“I began asking myself: what will remain of this experience if it is not written down?”  - LitHub

Portland’s Newest Dance Group Performs To Tens Of Thousands Of People

That’s because the Firewerks are dancing in the Moda Center, the home of the new WNBA team the Portland Fire. "I don’t think any of us really knew what we were walking into. We were just excited about this new dance opportunity in Portland,” says one Firewerk. - Oregon ArtsWatch

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Gets To Tell Your Family’s Story?

“The trauma of the Holocaust has lived beneath the surface of daily life for decades, too painful to confront. But now second- and third-generation family members are getting access to archives of collaboration. In some cases, it’s opening old wounds.” - The New York Times

Roku’s New 24 Hour Slop Channel Is An Abomination

For instance: “There’s a seven-minute ... tale of a mountain biker who rushes straight from a race to support his wife who’s giving birth, only to get killed by the very ambulance carrying her—all narrated from the POV of his bike.” - Slate

As Some Paintings Are Found, Art Thieves Hit A Sicilian Museum

In the morning, good news about an art theft from March. Then came the evening. “Thieves got past the alarm system at Messina's Museo Interdisciplinare Regionale (MuMe), and broke open a security case. They soon left with four wooden panels.” - NPR

Zale Perry, Early Acquatic Star For Hollywood And Equally Early Acid Tripper, Has Died At 93

Perry was “a depth-defying scuba diver and underwater stuntwoman whose reverence for the oceanic world was deepened by tripping out on LSD in a research study that included Cary Grant, Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper.” - The New York Times

Not Only Is The Rumpus Alive, But It’s Launching A Spanish-Language Literary Magazine

From the editors: “Rather than translating existing work from The Rumpus, El Alboroto will commission and publish original Spanish-language writing spanning cultural criticism, personal essays, interviews, fiction, poetry and comics.” - LitHub

Ian Frazier Wrote A Humorous Piece About Wile E. Coyote In The New Yorker In 1990

And now, after an improbable path whose twists and turns even the Roadrunner would have a hard time navigating, it’s a feature film. - The New York Times

Netflix Was Getting Into Gaming For A Bit There, But Now It’s Closing Gaming Studios All Over The Place

"Games on Netflix have had mixed results,” but the plan is to focus on kids and sports, or so it seems. So much for narrative synergy. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

Good News For News Publishers? From AI?

Well, from Apple, in any case: "The pay-as-you-go plan would see publishers paid only when Siri AI uses their content,” which is similar to the Apple News+ model for print (er, digital). - Nieman Lab

Even In Oxford, Romantasy Books Are Taking Off

And NPR gets right down to it with the owner: What is “Monster smut,” and why is it so popular right now? - NPR

How To Solve The So-Called Literacy Crisis, With Fun And Joy

In groups, sometimes with full-throated yawps, it’s time to take back public, communal reading. - The New York Times

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