Instead of Craigslist, the people of Berlin use fliers and lampposts to “send romantic messages to strangers they’ve seen on a train.”
Print’s Not Dead
Greatest Summer Reads
Still looking for summer book recommendations after checking our 2015 Second-Half Preview? We're not sure we believe you, but here are fifty of the greatest summer reads as ranked by Flavorwire, just in case.
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Like This Passage?
Ad-driven e-books may be something we'll all have to deal with in the future. At the Melville House blog, Dustin Kurtz explains why ads that pop up while a person is reading might well be an inevitable development. (If you’re like me, your reaction to this is simple: ugh.)
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Jane Austen in New York
At the Morgan Library in NYC: "A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy." Read the NY Times review of the show here. And, if your hankering for eighteenth and early nineteenth century English art isn't sated by the Austen, the Morgan is also offering "William Blake's World: 'A New Heaven Is Begun'".
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A New Path to Recognition for Self-Published Authors
Alison Flood highlights a few of the collectives scouring the glut of self-published books in search of gems.
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A Censor’s Tour
Recommended reading: Peter Hessler writes about spending a week on tour with his Chinese censor.
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Girls To The Front
In riot grrl news, here's an interview with Corin Tucker, formerly of Sleater-Kinney, over at The Rumpus.