• People Are Less Dismissive of Ideas They Hear Than Those They Read, Study Finds
• Why Reading Aloud Helps You Remember More Information
• You Remember in the Opposite Order as You See
• Burgeoning British Appreciation of Pseudo-Profound Baloney
• Scientists Identify Precisely What Makes a Poem Pleasing
Country Diary 8
• ‘Having a Bit of a Tinker’: John Clarke, Birds, and the Daily Pleasure of Writing
• Country Diary: Return of the Parish Lengthsman
• Country Diary: Ringing the Changes in the Bird Population
• Country Diary 1967: Sniffing Out Birds at the Sewage Farm
• Country Diary: A Village History Told in Maps
Bedtime Stories
• How Many of Us Still Read a Book in Bed?
• 11 Ridiculously Overdue Library Books (That Were Finally Returned)
• The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time: No 92 — The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660)
• Umberto Eco on Unread Books
• Found: A Long-Lost Copy of John Donne’s Fart-Filled Satire
• 12 of the World’s Most …
Short Story Collections
• 50 Inspiring Quotes about Writing from the World’s Greatest Authors
• Tell a Story in Six Words — Mystery Writers Dare You to Try
• Drama Book Shop Celebrates Its Centennial. But Is It Too Late?
• “15 Short Story Collections Every Guy Should Read”
• “The Man’s Essential Library”
• 5 Classic Novels Everyone Should Read
Man Conquers World
• How the QWERTY Pattern Became the Industry Standard for Typewriters and Computer Keyboards
• How QWERTY Conquered Keyboards
• How Pinball Machines Are Made
• People Bingo Is a Great Ice Breaker for Adults
• Have Wife Will Carry: Couples Vie in Wife-Carrying Contes…