Recommended Viewing: Atlas Obscura’s gallery of libraries in which books are chained to the shelves. (h/t The Hairpin)
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Susie DeFord’s Dogs of Brooklyn
Poets, dog-lovers, urban-dwellers, and really, everyone -- check out poet and dog-trainer Susie DeFord's heartfelt and keen-eyed new book of poems, Dogs of Brooklyn. Says Vijay Seshadri, DeFord's collection is full of "wonderful poetic investigations into the life of Brooklyn's dogs, into their habits, their idiosyncrasies, and their secret longings."
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Bookshelf of the Masses
From Jared Fanning, a charming graphic of the world's 10 most read books.
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Leemos En Español
"You are what you brought from your country? Or you are what you learned here?" The New York Times visits Librería Barco de Papel, one of New York City's last remaining Spanish-language bookstores. The space also operates as a community and cultural center for the Jackson Heights neighborhood, where roughly half of the 67,000 residents identify as Latino. If you want to feel some more feelings about the state of independent bookstores, check out this old Millions piece about paving paradise and putting up a Chipotle.
For What It’s Worth
Oh, good! Here is a list of what everyone is reading instead of your 10-year peer-reviewed study on bee colony collapse and the near end of human existence.
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Gigantic Film News
The Big Friendly Giant is coming to the big screen. Steven Spielberg will direct a live adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book The BFG about a little girl and a friendly giant trying to stop his friends from eating children. If you had any doubt that Spielberg could bring sympathy to a mythical creature, he'll be pairing up with E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison again.