Exploring the history of the Luddites, aka, what you call yourself because you don’t have an iPad.
- Banned Book Week? Try getting your ultra-Orthodox bookstore vandalized because you sell “immodest” books.
- Mark Twain gets unbanned for Banned Book Week.
- At Impose, Josh Spilker has a few thoughts on Canteen’s “Hot Author” series.
- NPR takes a look at 20 years of Riot Grrrl.
- And finally from the Generation X nostalgia department: Nevermind was released twenty years ago tomorrow, and The Rumpus has a wonderful piece about the record that defined a generation.
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