Tuesday Links

"In contemporary capitalist societies, libraries stand out as slightly odd. While people are generally accustomed to going into a store and having to pay if they plan on leaving with something – in a library this relationship is quite different.” From AirBnB to Zipcar, startups premised on the so-called "sharing economy" tout themselves as radical and disruptive. Except that another institution – the public library – has been offering communal property for hundreds of years. Not that the circumstances are always ideal, as our own Jacob Lambert attests in his "Open Letter to the Person Who Wiped Boogers on My Library Book."

"My mum is Jerry Hall and my father's Mick Jagger. People say I have great genes," says the youngest of Mick Jagger's children, Georgia May Jagger, in a new Hudson Jeans television ad.  See the jeans and genes of this "neo-Bardot" at The Daily Beast.

Last year we highlighted University of Nebraska Press among other small presses for the keeping in print otherwise little known future Nobel laureates. Today's honoree Mario Vargas Llosa is quite well-known by comparison, but University of Nebraska Press has nonetheless (barely) run its Nobel streak to three straight years by way of Vargas Llosa's inclusion in the press' soccer writing anthology, The Global Game: Writers on Soccer.

The first trailer for the adaptation of James Franco's Palo Alto is out. It features Emma Roberts as a teenager coming of age in the edgy California suburbs, and of course Franco makes an appearance as her teacher crush.