“Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures,” written by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by K. G. Campbell, has won this year’s Newbery Medal.
For the first time in twenty years, the Oxford English Dictionary has hired a new chief editor, Michael Proffitt.
The country’s first bookless public-library system opened earlier this month, in San Antonio, Texas.
Last week, the Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina released a “lost chapter” of his 2011 memoir, titled “I Am a Homosexual, Mum” as a response to anti-gay laws recently passed in Nigeria and Uganda.
Walter Isaacson is crowdsourcing editing suggestions for his new project, an encyclopedic history of innovators. He told Bloomberg Businessweek, “I got to the point of the book where people started using the Internet to collaborate. It didn’t take a genius to say, ‘Why don’t I use the Internet to collaborate?’ ”
Mark O’Connell calls the Omnivore’s Hatchet Job of the Year award, which goes to the most scathing book review, the “worst award of its generation.”
“Marley was dead: to begin with.” Kathryn Schulz chooses the five best punctuation marks in literature.
Universal has released its first “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie poster.
Above: A computer screen displays books available at BiblioTech, the first digital public library. Photograph by Eric Gay/AP.
