🔖 Read Monster or victim?: The fascination of Hedda Gabler, the ‘female Hamlet’ who divides opinion by Miriam Balanescu (BBC).

Why not both?

🔖 Read What’s next after the historic No Kings protest? by Daniel Hunter (Waging Non-violence).

Reading about defections gives me hope.

🔖 Read No, you don’t need to optimize your morning routine.

This post from Fenn Priest is a gift. I’m so glad Katy Peplin linked it in her newsletter.

🔖 Read The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story.

This is a super interesting read about comparative mythology. I had to borrow The New Yorker from my library in the Libby app to read it.

🔖📚 Read The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist.

Book heist! Fascinating stuff!

🔖📚 Read A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries.

In New Braunfels ISD, middle and high school libraries will be closed for an indefinite amounts of time while books are reviewed. Read the article for suggestions on how to defend the freedom to read in Texas.

🔖📚 Read To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe by Ed Simon (Literary Hub).

I love that Simon is able to draw lines from Poe’s work to his burial, from his burial to his exhumation, to multiple author’s taphephobia to Barthes and the death of the author.

🔖📚 Read New NC law means teachers are providing fewer books for their students to read.

This bill requires schools to publish a complete catalog of all texts available to students. It creates an administrative burden and has a chilling effect on students’ access to materials.

🔖📚 Read Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with.

This is one example of many where the people with whom library staff collaborate didn’t have the opportunity to advocate for them.

🔖 Read Why I’m One And Done (And Not Feeling Guilty About It) by Stephanie Fallon (The Good Trade).

My experience is so similar to Fallon’s. Before having M, I thought maybe 2 kids. But he’s very high touch and when people ask, I always say, “I don’t have enough Kimberly for a second kid.”