What’s That Smell? Rare Books and Artifacts From a 1906 Library – How am I not doing this for my life’s work? Columbia University professor Jorge Otero-Pailos has been working with his graduate students to collect smells at the Manhattan Morgan Library & Museum that might eventually be part of an olfactory tour or display. ... more >
Paul Beatty, Maggie Nelson, Sam Quinones among winners of 2015 Book Critics awards – Paul Beatty’s novel The Sellout won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, while Maggie Nelson’s memoir The Argonauts won the award for criticism. A full list of winners can be found here. The poetry award went to ... more >