Book Links: Chris Hadfield to pen picture book; “ism” is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year; inner space’s smallest heroes coming to big screen

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Merriam-Webster fails to look up the definition of “suffix,” makes “ism” its word of the year. (NPR)
The number of Chicago high schools with a 90 per cent or more African American student body that employ a librarian has dropped 84 per cent to only two institutions since 2012. (School Library Journal)
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield apparently still hasn’t accomplished enough, will produce a picture book in 2016. (GalleyCat)
In defense of the rights of dead authors. (Uncanny)
U.K. author Howard Jacobson reflects on a lifetime of collecting books. (BBC)
Twenty-nine jobs from fiction that are better than yours. (Adzuna)
Remember ROM? (No?) He’s coming back, in movie form – along with the Micronauts and some other toy-based properties that were once spun off into comic books with various degrees of success. (A.V. Club)

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