- Whitney Trettien has a great post, "The Erasers & the Annotators: A Remixed Twitter Convo on Library Marginalia (and more)". I love the way she did this.
- Over at the Book Bench, Macy Halford writes on Benjamin Franklin and the early foundations of American libraries.
- A Virginia collector has donated nearly 700 Civil War photographs to the Library of Congress, the WaPo reports. A major exhibition of the photographs is planned for April 2011, and many of the images are available online.
- Author Doug Stewart talks about his The Boy Who Would be Shakespeare in the Lexington Patch.
- Via Reading Copy this week, author-scented candles (quite amusing).
- From The Millions, word that Jack Black will play the title character in a film adaptation of Gulliver's Travels. Watch the preview.
- In Slate, Paul Collins writes on the history of chain letters.
Reviews
- Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life; reviews by Andrew Cayton in the NYTimes and Andrew Roberts in the WSJ.
- Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery; review by David Reynolds in the NYTimes.
- Stephen Breyer's Making Democracy Work; review by David Fontana in the WaPo.
- Daisy Hay's Young Romantics and Richard Marggraf Turley's Bright Star; review by Oliver Herford in the TLS.
