books Horse Yoga, All About Pockets, How God Gives Us Ice Cream, and a slew of other weird books David Pescovitz
crime FBI veteran charged with stalking after allegedly terrorizing law student for over a year Ellsworth Toohey
writing Stephen King's shameless self-promotion on NY Times' "best books" list amuses and outrages Natalie Dressed
texas Celebrate Banned Books Week (October 1-7) with Harris County Public Library, which was recently declared a "book sanctuary" Jennifer Sandlin
books In LA this weekend? Come to the California International Antiquarian Book Fair Mark Frauenfelder
books Mike Pompeo's new book is highly praised on its back cover — a blurb no author would ever want Carla Sinclair
books New rare book catalogue features a Soviet Space Race picture book with backyard-built rocket Rebecca Romney
happy mutants Watch the trailer to "The Booksellers," a documentary on the enduring, eccentric world of rare book selling Gareth Branwyn
happy mutants Barnes and Noble's new boss is James Daunt, who rescued the UK's Waterstones Cory Doctorow
Business Microsoft is about to shut off its ebook DRM servers: "The books will stop working" Cory Doctorow
china Hong Kong's #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate Cory Doctorow
surveillance Hong Kong's #612strike protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell Cory Doctorow
authoritarianism The latest popular uprising in Hong Kong is fighting to keep Beijing from dragging dissidents to mainland China Cory Doctorow