This week on the bookish internet

• Valerie Stivers cooks from…Zora Neale Hurston. (The Paris Review)
• Apparently, Samuel Becket was too depressing for the Nobel committee. (The Guardian)
• Emily Nussbaum asked what books people would use if they were sworn into office and the bookish internet took the question viral. (Book Riot)
  • My answer.
• Drag Queen Story Time continues for now! (American Libraries)
• Jessica Barry wonders why women read thrillers and mysteries where awful things happen to women. (Crimereads)
• Librarian Kristen Arnett shares her resolutions for 2019. (LitHub)
• Have you ever wondered how words get into the dictionaries and become official? (OpenCulture)

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I was going to post a round of responses to Marie Kondo and book collections, but I needed to declutter my Instapaper folder and they weren’t sparking joy…

*rimshot*