The Washington Post announced yesterday that it is being sold to Jeff Bezos Amazon founder for two hundred and fifty million dollars. (David Remnick on why the owner Donald Graham sold the paper to Bezos; a Post reading list from the New Yorker archive.)
For NPR, Lynn Neary reports on how e-books are straining relations between publishing houses and libraries.
Molly Crabapple’s sketchbook from the trial of Bradley Manning.
At Salon, Michele Filgate wonders if social media is replacing the role of writers’ journals and letters, and what readers might lose in that transition.
A Tumblr devoted to tracking the many literary references on Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black.”
