Category: Books

Help Save New York Public Library!

  The campaign to save some of New York City’s most popular and beloved libraries needs your help. Can you make a donation now to save NYPL? Donate to Save NYPL There is an extraordinary new...

More on The New York Public Library

The latest message from the Committee to Save the New York Public Library: Dear friends, The new issue of the New Criterion magazine contains a feature article titled “Philanthropic Tyranny at the NYPL” slamming the...

Tonight at Poets House

I’ll be there: Coming up at Poets House Tuesday, October 1, 7:00pm Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Reading & Panel Discussion In response to the 2007 destruction of Baghdad’s centuries-old literary district, poet and bookseller...

David Levering Lewis on NYPL

I received the following open letter from David Levering Lewis yesterday, & think it worthwhile reposting it here. The New York Public Library reconstruction plans are really now being shown as what they are...

80 Years Ago, @ 451 Fahrenheit

A day not to be forgotten: Eighty years ago, on 10 May 1933 in a number of cities throughout the so-called Third Reich, the Nazis publicly burned the books (upwards of 25,000) of many writers,...

Iraqi Authors on ‘A Decade of Despair’

Via & thanks to the as always excellent blog Arab Literature (in English): Posted on March 21, 2013 by mlynxqualey | Leave a comment This is the month, the week, the fifteen minutes that the world is grappling with...