A lovely article on the Choose What You Read campaign which asks people if they'd prefer to be reading books instead of free newspapers. They've also taken to handing out novels at stations. Great quote: "I remember when the novel White Teeth by Zadie Smith came out –
everyone was reading that. You could pretty much read the whole book
over a few weeks just by looking over somebody’s shoulder."
Profile of Vincent Connare who invented Comic Sans: "[a woman] broke up with her boyfriend in a letter written in Comic Sans to soften the blow"
Video footage of Sara Crowley reading Porn Mallow at Sparks. Sara has had some great short stories up lately and also recently wrote a great post about her sons.