C. Max Magee of the Millions is building some Literary Soundtracks at Pandora. So far he has 3 stations in the bag.
George Packer on George Orwell’s “Down and Out in Paris and London” via The Book Club at The New Yorker.
“The Lost Books of The Stone Reader” via Omnivoracious. A look at this 2002 documentary that is a must see for us bookish types. I just watched it and loved it.
Do you suffer from Library Anxiety? New book out “Library Rx: Measuring and Treating Library Anxiety” offers help for afflicted undergrads.
Bookseller adds Twitter as a sales channel. @cheepreads is “offering good reads one tweet (CHEEP!) at a time” Can better books be far behind?
New Sherlock Holmes exhibit at the University of Michigan featuring items from the Parker collection“Clues Beyond Sherlock Holmes: The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at Michigan.”
“Online sales help and hinder local bookshop” a look at how the folks at Jackson Street Books in Athens, GA are making their way in the current landscape.
Reporter pulls 18 books from the shelves of Seattle library to test levels of lead. 2 contain toxic levels via KIRO. A reasoned response to the sensational aspect of the story at The Common Room
“UW Press dabbles with Kindle, Amazon print on demand” University of Washington Press will offer 100 titles on Book Surge and 25 on the Kindle