Jeannine A. Cook is the owner and curator of several independent bookstores. She has worked as a writer, designer, and consultant for startups, corporations, nonprofits, influencers, and most recently, for herself. Here Cook discusses Shut Up and Read, her memoir about life as a bookseller, writer, and community organizer, as well as the ancestors whose spiritual guidance have influenced her every step of the way. (continued)

Merriam-Webster looked up "the longest long words list," warning: "Don't read this if you have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (fear of long words)."

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The New York Public Library highlighted "women who shaped New York City."

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Guardian illustrator Tom Gauld's take on Wuthering Heights: "Literary ecologists have successfully reintroduced several rare Gothic species to the Yorkshire moors."

Rose Lesniak, "a feminist poet who dazzled and upended the male-dominated literary scene in New York during the 1970s before suddenly bolting to South Florida, where she worked as a child abuse investigator and then--in the final act of her kaleidoscopic life--became a dog trainer," died on February 1, the New York Times reported. She was 70. In 2023, she published What the Dogs Tell Me, a collection of poems about her dogs, Martha and Joey. (continued)