WORDS

"After 20 years of assembling what may be the greatest typewriter collection in the world," — owned by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Maya Angelou, Joe DiMaggio, John Lennon, Shirley Temple, and the Unabomber — "(Steve) Soboroff is putting all 33 of his beloved machines up for auction." - The New York Times

Celebrity deaths were top of mind, as they are most years on Wikipedia. The list of notable deaths was the second most viewed page. - NPR

"Introduced by Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-FL), Frederica Wilson (D-FL), and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the Fight Book Bans Act would offer school districts funding to defend against the ongoing surge in challenges to books and educational materials that has led to thousands of titles being pulled from school library bookshelves." - Publishers Weekly

Borowitz wrote on Facebook that “because of financial difficulties, The New Yorker has been forced to cut costs. As a result, it has decided to stop publishing The Borowitz Report. - Deadline

That's what happens when you don't tell your landlady you have tuberculosis (and streptomycin won't be invented for another 120 years). - The Guardian

Google “What is Content?” and you will encounter an infinitude of web pages explaining the concept of content marketing; the indispensability of superior content for your brand; how to use content strategically, on and on. The word itself is a blank. - 3 Quarks Daily

"He would have hated the fact that today, 93 years after his death, his historical novels lie unread, while his ‘cheap’ – but beloved – detective lives forever on our screens.” - The Guardian

"These librarians adopted technology from other fields to photograph an array of documents, including rare and/or archival documents, and found means of sending them across continents. … Librarians gathered intelligence from technological manuals, land surveys, and economic reports available to the general public in both Axis and neutral countries." - JSTOR Daily

Christopher Paolini really wanted to be a dragon-rider, but that wasn't a job opportunity. So the then-15-year-old wrote a book instead. - The New York Times

For the Inside Literary Prize, inspired by a similar prize in France, "a jury of inmates in prisons across six states will be able to read and debate books, then vote on the winner." - The New York Times

Some of them are, anyway, trying to help their readers cook for the planet. - Wired

And it's the slightly iffy-sounding, if not meaning, "rizz" (chaRIZZma, get it?). The word even beat out "situationship" and "Swiftie." Why? Because the Gen-Alphas have some rizz. - The New York Times

Lynch has been incessantly (after the prize) "asked for his views on far right movements in Western Europe and about the recent riots in Dublin that were sparked by right wing agitators — an event that he found both shocking and depressingly predictable." - The New York Times

For that matter, the best deal on books, streaming, magazines, newspapers, and a lot more - yes, yes, you already know: A library card. (And for e-books and audiobooks, the app Libby.) "It’s all so easy that it feels like cheating." - Slate

The word of a year in which AI, deep fakes, political chicanery, and war propaganda filled the airwaves and wireless chat is a bit unexpected. - Wired