This morning’s news sees a young child’s efforts to increase literacy discouraged, some lost footage from the great Orson Welles, an accurate re-creation of Ancient Greek music, and more –all below the jump!
Image courtesy Los Angeles Times
Spencer Collins, a nine-year-old boy from Leawood, Kansas, wanted to spread the joy of reading. He built a small library in the front yard; authorities have ordered him to take it down.
On the back of its still-ongoing bullying of Hachette Books, Amazon presses for more favorable contracts with UK publishers.
OpenCulture has a fantastic selection of “lost films” from iconic movie man Orson Welles.
BookStats, the most exhaustive statistics program developed by the publishing industry to date, may be facing an early death.
Book World, a small chain of bookstores in the Midwest and Great Lakes area of the U.S., is closing two bookstores in Wisconsin.
In France, the U.N. finally grants Europe’s oldest cave drawings UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
Rhinoceros, Grotte Chauvet Photo via: Wikimedia Commons
The Paris Review has collected an illuminating bit of trivia on several classic authors. What was Borges opinion on soccer, for instance? Hint: he hated it.
Listen to an accurate (vocally, instrumentally, lyrically, musically) reconstruction of some Ancient Greek music!… Read More...
