John Green Sends Books to Ferguson
Scott Bonner, the director of the Ferguson Municipal Public Library, answered questions on Reddit over the weekend and discussed the needs of the community in light of the ongoing protests.…
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Do Not Discuss List Draws Attention to Banned Books
Reddit’s Do Not Discuss List was revealed as an April Fools’ Day prank by the forum moderators. They planned the fake ban partly to draw attention to actually-banned books.
Reddit’s Do Not Discuss List
The books subgroup on Reddit, the famously libertarian-leaning message board, has planned a ban on discussion of several popular books. Many of the titles have been banned previously in the…
World History Plot Holes?
A meteor killing off the dinosaurs was obviously a cop out because the author didn’t know where to take the story. This was just one of several responses on Reddit’s…
Ask Your Favorite Writers Anything
Social news site Reddit doesn’t have a reputation as the most literary place on the Internet, but its AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) subreddit can be a valuable way to connect…
Two-Sentence Horror Stories
Last week, a Reddit user posed a question: “What is the best horror story you can come up with in two sentences?” The question received over 14,000 comments and Buzzfeed…
The Internet As Scarlet Letter
Though the Internet these days isn’t the Wild West it once was, there’s still plenty of vigilante justice going on, from the outing and firing of the man responsible for…
A Place for Literary Videos
In response to YouTube’s lack of a literature category, Reddit has created its own “underground” site for literary videos. “Poetry videos, short story videos, live readings, spoken work performance, audiobook…