This fortnight on the bookish internet

• Another great article in which designers talk about their process for creating book covers. (Electric Literature)
• Why are books the shape that they are? Danika Ellis has an answer. (Book Riot)
• Daniel Defoe was good with words…not so much with money, it turns out. (Daily JSTOR)
• Protest readings! (LitHub)
• The fact that I love the mere idea of Korea’s Our Language Battle just proves that I’m a massive word nerd. Don’t care. (BLARB)
• Cerdiwen Dovey explores an understudied writing process: writing as a group. (The New Yorker)
• Stop shaping people for their book choices! (The Bookseller)
  • Pair with this study that shows there is no difference, brain-wise, between reading a print book and listening to an audio book. Take that, haters! (Discover Blog)
• Linda Schlossberg imagines what might have happened if the eponymous Giving Tree had gotten some therapy. (McSweeney’s)
• Do you agree that these are the 40 best villains in literature? (LitHub)
• Writers share the books that give them hope. Because we could all use some hope right now. (LitHub)