A library in Stony Stratford successfully urged its patrons to check out every book to protest UK government plans to cut down library funds.
- If you’re good at making movies, have a look at this 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, where classic children’s books are condensed to 90 second movie masterpieces (didn’t see any limitations on where contestants must be from). You have until September 15th… Possibly inspired by Empire’s Done in Sixty Seconds?
- Quiz! How well do you know your literary banks? No, not Banksy, simply banks. Apparently I don’t, as I scored a paltry 4/10.
Literary mixtapes – what literary figures might listen to if they were real. What a brilliant idea! Here are Flavorwire’s suggestions for Harry Potter. And here they are for Humbert Humbert (I don’t think there are any others yet, so keep checking back there).
- One space or two? Incredibly, and I’m still not sure whether to take it seriously or not, the Slate features an entire article devoted to what typographical etiquette prescribes as the right way – only one space after a full stop, not two. Sorry, I’m so used to typing two that I’d have to cut my fingers off before they got used to typing just one; I’ll just resign myself to being wrong.
After The Wheel of Time, James Bond, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide, Sherlock Holmes is set to return to new adventures. Anthony Horowitz has been asked to write a new full-length novel featuring the detective. ETA September.
- Interview! The Guardian features a lengthy conversation with historian Eric Hobsbawn, probably best-known for his European 19-th century trilogy The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, and The Age of Empire.
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