To spend a lot of time with your head in dictionaries is to understand the extent to which your head is made up of dictionaries. And if our language doesn’t give us a word that another language contains, it may be that we won’t think or feel things that speakers of other languages do. - The New York Times
A “classic” is not an entry on some fixed list of books. Most of the time itis just a term for older—let’s say >25 years—books that we still read. Claiming that the classics are just the work of “straight cis Western white men” doesn’t strike me as a progressive stance. - CounterCraft
Before 1953, the only paperback books were, literally, pulp novels; the cheap pulp paper on which they were printed gave the genre its name. Purchasing affordable, durable paperback versions of serious classic or contemporary literature, something we now take for granted, was impossible. Then came Anchor Books. - The American Scholar
Atlantic Editions will publish between six and 12 nonfiction titles per year, all trade paperbacks, sold for $12.85. Each book will be “a single-author collection of essays from the Atlantic’s pages, focused on a single topic.” - Publishers Weekly
Protactile, as the new language is called, started with people (usually sighted) signing ASL into the hands of DeafBlind folks. But many of ASL's signs don't really come across in touch, so DeafBlind people have been gradually developing their own vocabulary and linguistic conventions. - The New Yorker
"After a journey even the creative minds at The Believer could not have imagined, the celebrated literary magazine is back in business and again being run by the company which first owned it." - AP
Why do people have such a problem with “like”? Is it because it simply won’t go away? In 1992, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a robust defence of the word and the way it carries “a rich emotional nuance”, responding to what had already been a decade of criticism. - The Guardian
Why an entire bookstore and café devoted to scary things? "Imagine your problems were a ghost, a monster, a serial killer — that the thing stealing your power could be punched or séanced or set on fire. That you could kill it, that you could triumph. Horror is cathartic." - Toronto Star
Co-founder of Bitch Magazine Andi Ziesler says that "the thing that made us stand out in an increasingly digital marketplace was the fact that we also had a print magazine. But the print magazine became increasingly hard to sustain because the cost of printing kept going up." - Slate
"There were impassioned statements on Ukraine, the killing of the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, social media polarization, climate change, the deluge of disinformation and the global decline of democracy." Writers might not be able to solve it all. - The New York Times
The publishing house Vivat's 117 employees are scattered across the world because "the city of Kharkiv, where Vivat is based, has been under fire from the first day of the war to the present day." Those who stayed sent company equipment to those who left. - LitHub
Jessie Sima always loved to doodle horses, or one might honor that art with the word sketch, even. In eighth grade, another kid told Sima, "Someday you’re going to make children’s books." Now they have two horse-related books on the bestseller list. - The New York Times
