The Korean College Girl Room Salon (2025)Word of the Year, and Other News
By Sadie Stein
On the Shelf
Oxford American Dictionaries have chosen the word of the year: GIF. The rationale? “The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned twenty-five this year, but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier.”
The NYPL celebrates the pick thusly.
Biographers falling for their subjects: an occupational hazard?
“Any biography of a living, breathing and active figure who’s still at the height of his powers is going to have to strike a delicate balance between access and objectivity … It can be very tricky, and it requires real finesse.”
Speaking of: the ten grumpiest authors in literary history.
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