Kardashian Limericks, Bird Grammar, and Mustaches

Janet Geddis, owner of newly opened Avid Bookshop, in Athens, Georgia, talked to The Millions about opening a store despite having “zero bookstore cred.” With the help of several veteran booksellers, as well as family and friends, the store is already bolstered by community support.

“All along I said I wanted a community-focused bookstore, and that has really come to fruition so much sooner than I’d expected. I think the bonds with the community are going to just get stronger the longer we’re here.”

About a year before Kurt Vonnegut died, Charles J. Shields got the green light to publish And So It Goes, “a gossipy page-turner of a biography” which reveals the author's many contradictions, according to the New York Times.

This week, Salman Rushdie tweeted a (rather entertaining) limerick about Kim Kardashian's divorce. If that is not a sign of the apocalypse, I don't know what is.

Who'da thunk it? It turns out that humans are not the only species that knows good grammar, reported the Scientific American. Bengalese finches were found to respond to tunes ordered with certain structure and able to spontaneously learn new grammar. Probably a result of all that sentence diagramming they do in Bengalese elementary schools.

In honor of Movember (a.k.a. No Shave November), Bookriot compiled a list of “Awesome Literary 'Staches.” And these dudes aren't messing around.

Henry Hitchings postulates on the apostrophe for the Huffington Post. Is it on its way out?