Clearly, the widespread illiteracy among paper dolls can be traced to the level of difficulty in making an origami book. This stuff's tough.--David E

Illustrator Leanne Shapton interviewed bookstore employees. Her sketches of the worker bees, along with their best anecdotes are here.--David E

Spice up your Sunday afternoon with a visit to the University of Minnesota to hear Olivia Judson,author of Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation. Judson is an evolutionary biologist, and her discussions about the whys and wherefores of procreation are both fascinating and funny. She writes The Wild Side blog for the New York … Continue reading A Belle at the Bell