language Tone indicators and the ever-evolving quest to clarify what we're saying online Clive Thompson
libraries The New York Public Library's curious collection of authors' personal items David Pescovitz
video New York Public Library making it easier to See Dickens' desk, Woolf's cane, and Kerouac's boots Andrea James
Nabokov pitches a movie idea to Hitchcock: "A girl, a rising star of not quite the first magnitude, is courted by a budding astronaut." Mark Frauenfelder