Proposed $20 million cut to the NYS Library Aid budget
New York considers a 20% reduction in the state Library Aid budget, which has already been slashed by 8% this year. (Via.)
New York considers a 20% reduction in the state Library Aid budget, which has already been slashed by 8% this year. (Via.)
Kalima, a United Arab Emirates project, endeavors to translate more than 100 books into Arabic each year. Suggestions sought.
Are three novels revised as one a new book? On Matthiessen’s status as NBA finalist for his (excellent) Shadow Country. (Via.)
The incomparable Alan Bennett donates his papers to the Bodleian Library, with gratitude to the “nanny state” that sent him to Oxford on scholarship.
His usual obscene and bitter style…. Mailer’s FBI file contains an agent’s notes on Miami and the Siege of Chicago.