Here is the top literary news of the week:
- A Never-Ending Poem Grows in the Netherlands
- Eddo-Lodge wins 2018 Jhalak Prize
- ‘Life and possibility beyond the violence’: How a mobile library is inspiring Afghanistan’s youth
- Journal Article: “Still Polishing the Diamond: School Library Research over the Last Decade”
- Chelsea Clinton reveals her all-time favorite books -- and her bad-boy literary crush
- Adapting Madness – Bringing H.P. Lovecraft’s World to Life
- James Comey’s memoir tops Amazon bestseller list after Trump’s Twitter attacks — and it isn’t even published yet
- ‘Fire and Fury’ Is Hot in Germany and France
- More men join the RNA as genre overcomes 'snobbery'
- Finalists Revealed for Denver Comic Con’s Excellence in Graphic Lit Awards
- UA library to put bulk of books into storage
- WRITING RULES THAT WERE MADE TO BE BROKEN: KILL YOUR DARLINGS
- Who stole 314 items from the Carnegie Library rare books room?
- John Oliver Challenges Mike Pence's Views on LGBT Rights With Parody Children's Book
- 'A global perspective that connects people’: Where The New York Times is plotting international growth
- Black Panther’s Badass Female Warriors Are Getting Their Own Spin-Off
- The Paris Review Is Looking for the Right Woman
- IFLA Releases Global Vision Report Summary
- Pearson reports 21% mean gender pay gap
- WHY ARE THERE TWO DISTINCT WAYS OF WRITING NORWEGIAN?
- Don Quixote gets scrambled into an e-book about the mafia after a Spanish court bans the original
- Disney to Help Open STEM Center in Oakland After Black Panther’s Success
- LibraryThing Acquires Litsy
- HarperCollins' gender pay gap is 10.4%
- Hachette reports 'stark' 24.7% gender pay gap
- On World Poetry Day, an ode to the social media poets
- Is Sylvia Plath's driver's license worth more than a letter from Dickens?
- JK ROWLING FIRES POTTERMORE EDITORIAL STAFF, PUTTING FUTURE OF WEBSITE IN QUESTION
- Redundancies mark 'closing time' for PRH's e-book production team
- India’s digital library plans to collaborate with foreign peers
- MELTDOWN COMICS, AN LA LANDMARK, TO CLOSE AFTER 25 YEARS
- Bill Cunningham Left Behind a Secret Memoir
- New OCLC Wise: Designed around people, driven by data
- Elizabeth is Missing green-lit for BBC1 adaptation
- SNOW, SECRECY, AND A SPEECH FROM THE QUEEN: THE 2018 WHITING AWARDS
- The Book List: What was in Oscar Wilde's prison library?
- Unpublished art by Lord of the Rings creator JRR Tolkien goes on show
- $40M library renovations unveiled at Concordia after 3 years of construction
- Stanfords may have to map out new home for flagship
- U.S. publisher acquires rights over Perumal Murugan’s novels
- Seoul's Doing Cafe Creates Community Around Feminism, Still a Taboo in South Korea
- Philip Kerr, master of the historical crime novel dies
- How to tune into Canada Reads 2018
- When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Bookstore
- Google Pours $300 Million Into Effort to Aid News Publishers
- Smashwords, Findaway Voices Team to Offer Audiobook Production, Distribution
- Don Quixote gets scrambled into an e-book about the mafia after a Spanish court bans the original
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