- Kelly Jensen dives into a new report from PEN America that contains some truly appalling numbers about book bans across the United States. A staggering four million students may be affected by book bans at their school and public libraries. (Book Riot)
- Stephen Johnson lists nine grammar rules that you can totally ignore! Embrace the anarchy of English syntax! (Lifehacker)
- Speaking of anarchic English, RobWords explains why there is so much Old Norse in our English. I mean, who even steals pronouns?!
- Laura Maris writes in praise of The Plague, by Albert Camus. (The Paris Review)
- I love it when a forgotten collection of manuscripts is found! This trove of medieval manuscripts and incunabula was found in Mediaș, Romania. (Medievalists.net)
- Jessie Gaynor reports on a rash of bomb threats against libraries in several American states. (LitHub)
- Colin Marshall takes a look at hyperpolyglots, who fascinate me and make me very jealous of their ability to master astonishing numbers of languages. (Open Culture)
- @Goldthread shows us the beauty of dragon scale bookbinding. (Twitter)
- I also love a new sub-genre! Diane Callahan explains curio fiction. (Tor)
- Twitter had a lot of fun with Joyce Carol Oates’ misrepresentation of Ted Chiang’s definitions of sci-fi and fantasy. Danika Ellis reports. (Book Riot)
- Pair with: Lincoln Michel’s more nuanced take on the messiness of genres. (CounterCraft)
- Jose Beduya offers a brief about efforts to preserve pieces of the monumental encyclopedia, the Yongle Dadian. (Cornell Libraries Blog)
- Anthony Aycock investigates how libraries across the US have stepped up to support community mental health. (Slate)
- …and a double helping of censorship news from Book Riot: September 23 and September 30
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