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Toni Morrison’s Library Is for Sale, and It Reveals the Range of the Author’s Tastes

Toni Morrison's personal library is up for sale, and among the 1,200 titles there are some surprises.
By Helen Holmes
Gwyneth Paltrow

Of Course Gwyneth Paltrow Has a Personal Book Curator for Her Brentwood Home

What else would you expect from the Queen of Goop?
By Morgan Halberg
Diana Damrau (bottom) as Lucia and Zeljko Lucic as Enrico

To Do This Week: Bushwick Beach House Brunch, Dita Von Teese

If you’re something of an opera amateur, good news: The Metropolitan Opera will be hosting a free summer film screening of some of its greatest operas from August 26 to September 5.
By Jennifer Ashley Wright
Construction work surprisingly isn't number one.

These 10 Jobs Are the Most Likely to Give You a Heart Attack

By John Bonazzo
(Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)

Afternoon Bulletin: NYC Rent Stabilization Laws Expired Last Night

By Justin Joffe

City Hall ‘Read-In’ Protests Library Budget

By Ellie Schroeder
circa 1950: One wing of the main reading room in the New York Public Library which houses the largest private collection in the USA. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Stop Starving Our Libraries

By The Editors
The aluminum facade has been deemed too expensive.

Steven Holl’s Celebrated L.I.C. Library Design to Be Carried Out on the Cheap

By Kim Velsey
Vintage Queens

Queens Library Crowdsources New Digital Archive

By John Bonazzo
Mellow Pages. (Facebook)

Mellow Pages Library Admits ExxonMobil Offer a Hoax

By Drew Grant
Mellow Pages Library. (Tumblr)

Update: ExxonMobil Claims No Record of Charity Outreach With Mellow Pages Library

By Drew Grant
Comeback 2.0 (via Tumblr)

Lance Armstrong Books ‘Moved’ to Fiction Section in Libraries

By Drew Grant
Flipping through the pages counts as reading! (Courtesy of House Beautiful)

Forget iPad-Powered Apartments—Libraries Are (Somehow) a Hot Amenity These Days

By Michael Ewing
Via the People's Library

Update: People's Library Partially Recovered From Mayor Bloomberg's Grip

By Drew Grant
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