- Kitchener Public Library first in Canada to loan out Wi-Fi hotspots. (CBC)
- Why Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel Prize win is good for literature. (Flavorwire)
- There’s a lot more to Sandra Boynton than just hippopotamuses. (New Yorker)
- The “literary orphan belongs to no world except that of narrative opportunity.” (The New Inquiry)
- It’s a good year for the memoirs: Elvis Costello’s 674-page book is all that, plus a “pint of Guinness and a bag of chips.” (The New York Times)
- Time to celebrate Star Wars Reads Day, it is. (Chronicle Books)
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