Genre: Fiction

Tale of Tales is a film adaptation based on the Pentamerone, a seventeenth-century publication of fairy tales collected by Italian poet Giambattista Basile, which contains the earliest versions of stories such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty. Directed by Matteo Garrone, the film stars Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, and John C. Reilly.

"The books themselves are very powerful—when you're around them, it's palpable." Cofounders Jeff Lee and Ann Martin, and architect Jeff Schultz, talk about the ongoing renovations and collaborations involved with Buffalo Peaks Ranch in Colorado, a part of their ongoing Rocky Mountain Land Library project. The project is featured in “A Book Sanctuary in the Rockies” by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

This video demonstrates the mechanisms behind the Biblio-Mat, which dispenses a random used book to any customer who inserts two dollars into the vending machine. Craig Small custom-made the machine, as an alternative approach to the discount sidewalk bin, for the Monkey's Paw, an antiquarian bookshop in Toronto.

"I suppose that's exactly the problem—I wasn't raised to know any better." Novelist and poet Paul Beatty reads from his novel The Sellout (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), which was awarded the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction, at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. Beatty is also a finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.