- It’s a :-< day for language as Oxford names the laugh-cry emoji its word of 2015. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Melville House)
- NYPL acquires New York Review of Books archives, including manuscripts from Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag. (The Guardian)
- Why Instagram is the new Oprah’s Book Club. (Vogue)
- Charles Dickens had a whole library of books he made up. (Open Culture)
- The rapid rise of Instapoets. (The New York Times)
- He tried and he failed: Morrissey leads 2015 Bad Sex in Fiction Award shortlist. (The Independent)
- Julianne Moore to star in adaptation of Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck. (GalleyCat)
- Margaret Atwood says the darnedest things: a tribute on her 76th birthday. (CBC Books)
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