- I’m not sure if Cormac McCarthy should be allowed to write menus or not, but I love Justin Tapp’s parody of what might happen if McCarthy were unleashed on an unsuspecting restaurant. (McSweeney’s)
- Donna Hemans reveals how Zora Neale Hurston (who I love) helped her reclaim the disparaged patois of her childhood. (Electric Literature)
- I love that Louisa May Alcott preferred to write Gothic thrillers, as Stephanie Sylverne shows us. (CrimeReads)
- Amalia Beckner started a book club in a place that no one might have expected: a women’s prison. (Texas Observer)
- Emma Bowman explains the movement to end library fines. (NPR)
- What was the weirdest book title of 2019? There’s a prize for that. (The Bookseller)
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A Bookish Type 
Some very strange book titles mentioned in that article from The Bookseller!
Have you read any of Alcott’s ‘gothic’ stories – I read one and it was far superior to Little Women
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I haven’t, but I plan to look for them on Project Gutenberg.
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I’d vote for “Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop” any day.
Re: Alcott on Gutenberg, The Mysterious Key and What it Opened is available for download, Behind a Mask, and A Modern Mephistopheles, A Whisper in the Dark as well. I’ll download some into my kindle for the holiday season.
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