Best Library People on Twitter Times are tough for the libraries and librarians in your life. No matter where you live, your library needs your support right now. To celebrate these passionate literary professionals, we have created another directory curated by GalleyCat Reviews readers. At the end of this post, we are building a directory of the Best Library People on Twitter. Best Book Reviewers on TwitterBest Editors on TwitterBest Book Publicity and Marketing Twitter FeedsBest eBook News on Twitter American Libraries Association: “The magazine of the American Library Association” Helaine Becker: “Writer and presenter of award-winning children’s fiction & non-fiction. BiblioFilmes: BiblioFilmes Festival Twitter page Bitchy Librarian: I hate everyone. Brooklyn Historical Society: BHS is a nationally recognized urban history center, comprising a museum; scholarly research library; and educational center dedicated to 400 years of Brooklyn!” Phil Bradley: “A librarian & internet consultant. Jack Bullion:”MFA, MLS. L.
Words About Words: 5 Essential Books on Language by Maria Popova What single Chinese men have to do with evolution and insults from Virginia Woolf. We love, love, love words and language. And what better way to celebrate them than through the written word itself? Harvard’s Steven Pinker is easily the world’s most prominent and prolific psycholinguist, whose multi-faceted work draws on visual cognition, evolutionary science, developmental psychology and computational theory of mind to explain the origin and function of language. Sample The Stuff of Thought with Pinker’s fantastic 2007 TED talk: In 2009, The Snark Handbook: A Reference Guide to Verbal Sparring became an instant favorite with its enlightening and entertaining compendium of history’s greatest masterpieces in the art of mockery, contextualizing today’s era of snark-humor and equipping us with the shiniest verbal armor to thrive as victor knights in it. I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.” ~ Virginia Woolf on Henry James