The magazine's archive editor, Erin Overbey, was fired last Friday for (per the termination letter) "a pattern of conduct that is disruptive to the operation of the company and undermines the journalistic ethics of our magazine." Here's how things got to this point. - The Daily Beast
As Van Dijk has observed, in our digital society, evaluation of cultural products has become synonymous with crowd evaluation. On websites or in newspapers and magazines, rating culture produces a diverse range of big data. - Journal of Cultural Analytics
The list is described as “challenging, stimulating, surprising, nourishing” by the chair of judges, contains the youngest and oldest authors ever to be nominated for the award. - The Guardian
"I think the right wing is really afraid of libraries not because libraries promote any one type of information but because libraries promote information itself. ... Libraries help us to think. That is why they are powerful, and that is why they are under attack." - The Guardian
"This is the future an emerging number of publishing startups are after — aiming to change the value of a book from a $10 Amazon purchase to a $100 investment opportunity, while creating a market of readers excited to see the books they love succeed." - Esquire
"Library workers across Oklahoma's Metropolitan Library System (MLS) were shocked this week after receiving instructions to avoid using the word 'abortion' and not to help patrons locate abortion-related information on either library computers or their own devices." - Vice
There is a breed of Homo sapiens that will walk inside, take a deep breath, and say, “Mmm, I just love the smell of old books.” They are to be got rid of as quickly as possible, with whatever violence it takes. - The New York Times
Though the publishing industry would never condone book banning, a subtler form of repression is taking place in the literary world, restricting intellectual and artistic expression from behind closed doors, and often defending these restrictions with thoughtful-sounding rationales. - The New York Times
"You’re seeing a lot less cop novels, a lot less cop procedurals, because I think there’s an inherent disbelief in the goodness of the police right now." - LitHub
How did Julie Doucet become canonical? Part of the reason: "French comics, too, had its #MeToo moment, or #BalanceTonPorc (#DitchYourPig) as the French say." - Los Angeles Review of Books
That is, our earbuds, Air Pods, headphones, etc. - Julia Whelan is an extremely popular audiobook narrator who's writing (and narrating) her own story too. - The New York Times
That is, comics that read from top to bottom, on smart phones - and whose audience is mostly young women. One author: "We have these opportunities to share these romance stories as American creators — as American women authors and comic artists." - The New York Times
Until now, the earliest example of the genre was thought to be Will Eisner's 1978 A Contract with God. What's just turned up is Voyage and Adventures of a Good Little German in Kangarooland, by a new immigrant in Australia sent to an internment camp there during WWI. - ArtsHub (Australia)
