And spare us the ‘Best Read’ vs. ‘Most Well-Read’ crap, pedants.
World Book Night, an event started in the U.K., aims to give away one million books to one million people. TIME spoke to Jamie Byng, the event’s founder and chair, about how books can make the world a saner place.
Monday’s links remember the good old days with 1960s literature and Bob Dylan retrospectives.
Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released today show that while students have made slight gains in math in the past two years, performance in reading remains largely unchanged.
Gulping gargoyles! Just when it seemed the Harry Potter franchise was finally avada kedavra-ed, J.K. Rowling has launched the website “Pottermore” to continue the story of the young boy wizard. (See what she’s doing with the wordplay there?)
“I get behind her and stick my arms through her armholes, and I start playing around, touching her face… stuff that [the photographer's] telling me. She’s tiny, and I’m, like, six-two. They had to put her on an applebox to make her even with me.” –JOE ROSARIO, hand model and actor, whose hand appears on [...]
Say farewell to field sports and learn to cling to your Kindle.
A 60 Minutes report shows Greg Mortenson’s memoir may be a few cups short of a full set.
Among the citizens’ newfound freedoms is the ability to read what they want – a far cry from the information void that appeared in Egypt during the Jan. 25 revolution.
Tuesday’s links stick to the cookies and the jokes that we’re used to.
