- Kaushik Patowary profiles the man, the legend, the verb: Charles Boycott. (Amusing Planet)
- Alex Kantrowitz is being plagiarized by AI writing programs. (Big Technology)
- Dan Sheehan shares news of what may be the weirdest hobby (now Guinness-official world record) I’ve ever heard of: Michele Santelia types books backward. (LitHub)
- Speaking of type, Ashawnta Jackson looks into the history of the Boston Typesetting Race of 1886. (Daily JSTOR)
- Claire Woodcock reports on the appallingly steep budget cuts potentially facing the New York Public Library system. (VICE)
- James Davis Driscoll surveyed science fiction and fantasy to see what kind of government types popped up. The results are bleak and not all that surprising. (TOR)
- May Wang discusses William Morris’s beautifully printed books. (Daily JSTOR)
- Katie Fustich reflects on a year of reading romance novels and “guilty pleasures.” (LitHub)
- Emmett Lindner talks to librarians and conservationists about keeping their collections safe in an era of worsening climate change-influenced weather. (New York Times)
- And your weekly helping of censorship news, via Book Riot.
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