Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Oakland's Main Library Without Power for 4th Day After Breaker Blows
- MWA Announces 2018 Edgar Award Nominations
- Barrington Stoke author defends children's book about racism
- CARL Statement on Net Neutrality
- Amazon Is Totally Putting Its Second Headquarters in D.C., Right?
- Humpty Dumpty: Why Do We Think He Was an Egg?
- Chinese Police Seize Publisher From Train in Front of Diplomats
- NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS NAME 2017 FINALISTS
- Connect Books' buyer Aurelius backs out of sale
- Cleveland Public Library Embarks on Branch Revitalization Project
- The Lost Giant of American Literature
- Editorial: It’s Time for Publishers to Join the Fight for Net Neutrality
- These kids started a book club for minority boys. It’s the most popular club in school.
- New York Daily News Exec Investigated After Harassment Complaint
- David Simon Is Adapting Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, About Life Under a Xenophobic, Anti-Semitic President, Into a Miniseries
- UCLA’S William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Reopens After Two-Year Closure For Seismic Retrofitting and Renovations
- Somerset libraries under threat again
- Facebook news-feed changes will cut into publishers’ branded-content revenue
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88
- Google Takes on Audible With New Audiobook Offering
- Pluto to shut office for International Women's Strike
- St. Paul library translates children’s book into Ethiopian languages
- HOW BEING A LIBRARIAN MAKES ME A BETTER WRITER
- The Pope has a message on 'fake news' for Trump
- Inpress to hold 'Festival of Publishing'
- Woodstock-area woman creates The Lisa Libraries to put new books in hands of underprivileged kids
- A New Proof-of-Concept: Library of Congress Introduces a Virtual U.S. Copyright Office Card Catalog
- DECORATE YOUR HOUSE (AND ARRANGE YOUR BOOKS) LIKE EDITH WHARTON
- Ivanka Trump’s book and a proud family tradition of losing hundreds of thousands of dollars
- Apple’s Getting Back Into the E-Books Fight Against Amazon
- 2018 PEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARDS FINALISTS
- Pottermore and Audible to release new J K Rowling audiobook
- Preserved Film of 1954 Basketball Games that Inspired ‘Hoosiers’ to be Stored at Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
- INTERVIEW WITH A BOOKSTORE: TULSA’S MAGIC CITY BOOKS
- Polish Parliament's Lower House Votes to Criminalize Mention of Polish Crimes in the Holocaust
- A writer’s account of transitioning and transcending gender shows being trans is not un-African
- Nicanor Parra, portrait of the antipoet who seemed immortal
- Chinese online literature blossoms with more diverse themes
- The Literary Conservancy to host course for aspiring publishers
- Last Jedi director helped write Han Solo’s funeral scene – and an unseen meeting between two characters – for film novelisation
- Jacqueline Woodson Named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
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