This week on the bookish internet

• This lecture was delivered earlier this year but since Medievalists.net posted about Dr. Mary Wellesley’s lecture on medieval manuscripts and the people who wrote and illustrated them just this week, I’m just going to post about it anyway.
• The folks at LitHub have rounded up some excellent writing about Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and his works, for the author’s 100th birthday.
• Colin Marshall explains the Fiske Reading Machine, which looks like it will make you go blind within a week. (OpenCulture)
  • OpenCulture also posted this week about Friedrich Nietzsche’s wildly complicated typewriter.
• Jennifer Schuessler reports on an exhibit at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum featuring Enheduanna, the earliest known woman writer. (New York Times)
• Isaac Schultz shares the news about the oldest known bit of writing (in an alphabet) found to date, which deals with lice. (Gizmodo)
• Stephanie McCarter would like us all to make some time for Ovid’s Metamorphoses. (Electric Literature)
• …and, of course, this week’s censorship news, courtesy of Book Riot.

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