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Reading as public protest in Thailand, injecting new life into bricks-and-mortar bookstores, and more

BookNet Canada interviews Mark Ury, CEO of Toronto-based “visual storytelling” platform Storybird
Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Politics of Despotic Paternalism among the titles citizens of Thailand are reading in public to protest the crackdown by the country’s military junta
“Informed, strategic, and daring”: reinventing the bricks-and-mortar bookstore
At a modest $300 million, new plan for renos to New York City Library’s Mid-Manhattan branch is $200 million cheaper than earlier, rejected plan
“The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes” and 11 other literary insults for a sunny Monday morning