This week on the bookish internet

• Tracy Shapley Towley gives a very salient reason for not banning books because they’re “uncomfortable.” (Book Riot)
  • And another reason, from Lauren LeBlanc. (The Atlantic)
  • And another, from Nicole Melleby. (LitHub)
• Natalie Bennett, Priscilla Thompson, and Kevin Urgiles asked inmates and activists about the effects of banning books from prisons. (NBC)
• Laura Studarus looks at the history of the London Library and the more famous members among its subscribers—it turns out that Bram Stoker scribbled in library books, the naughty man. (The Daily Beast)
• Ashley Holstrom takes a look at the recent revival of serialized classic fiction. (Book Riot)
• Maris Kreizman looks back at Gone Girl, published 10 years ago (omg), and the diminishing returns of read-a-like books that inevitably follow breakout best sellers. (Esquire)
• This isn’t actually a news story, but the most recent episode of Lingthusiasm brought the experimental story, “Uncleftish Beholding” by Poul Anderson, to my attention. What would English look like if it hadn’t started stealing vocabulary from every language it came into contact with? It might look like “Uncleftish Beholding.” (Wikipedia)