AlphaPussy

from the Los Angeles Times Growing up in the Valley, Gina Gershon learned how to steer through toxicity By Cat Woods In “AlphaPussy,” Gina Gershon’s real-life stories deal with “themes of manipulation, survival, and moving around and being able to stand on your own...

The First Writers

from the Metro UK Humans could have been ‘writing’ 40,000 years earlier than anyone thought by Rory McKeown A mammoth figurine found in the Vogelherd Cave. It is around 40,000 years old and covered in sequences of crosses and dots which researchers believe may be the...

Social Silent Reading

from WLRN NPR A different party scene: How Books & Books is building community through silent reading WLRN Public Media | By Sofia Zarran Participants in the Books & Books Reading Party read on a carpet and chairs as they indulge in the silence and communal...

Bookstore Rebound

from the Chicago Tribune Editorial: The bookstore comeback is good news for readers The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune As winter settles in and daylight fades early, Americans long have turned to books for comfort, curiosity and company. The good news this holiday...

Barbarians no Bibliotheca!

from The Free Press Niall Ferguson: Without Books We Will Be Barbarians It is not the road to serfdom that awaits—but the steep downward slope to the status of a peasant in ancient Egypt. By Niall Ferguson “WHAT RAY BRADBURY FAILED TO ANTICIPATE IS THAT HIS NATIVE...