Here is the top literary news of the week.
- Independent Bookstore Allowed to Keep Controversial Anti-Trump Display
- Children's laureates demand UK government investigate school library closures
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- Oregon: Two Reed College Library Bathrooms Vandalized With Racist, Homophobic, and Anti-Semitic Graffiti
- PRH to Offer Student Loan Repayment Assistance
- WYOMING BOOKSTORE BANS WI-FI, MAKES CUSTOMERS READ BOOKS
- Inclusivity in Publishing Award launched
- CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE ON TRUMP AND RACISM
- ‘Reading should be chocolate, not broccoli’ – Miranda Sherry chats about her writing life
- Ohio: Wright Memorial Public Library Launches Election 2016 Oral History Project
- 25 NONFICTION BOOKS FOR ANGER AND ACTION
- We read all 20 National Book Award nominees for 2016. Here's what we thought.
- All eyes on America, The Independent plans to double U.S. staff
- Language is not a static, lifeless thing: Why we should refrain from frothing at the mouth when words are used incorrectly
- THREE UNPUBLISHED POEMS BY JOHNNY CASH THAT SHOULD BE SONGS
- Hisham Matar wins Best First Biography Prize
- Changes To Wolfson History Prize 2017 Announced
- The lie of the land: when map makers get it wrong – in pictures
- Why I chose to teach Harry Potter
- Here Are The 2016 National Book Award Winners
- Inkitt Announces Global Launch of iOS App
- Designs For a $200 Million Renovation of New York Public Library’s Mid-Manhattan Branch Approved
- Transworld mourns 'tragic' death of author Roger Hobbs, aged 28
- J.D. Vance, the False Prophet of Blue America
- Neil Gaiman set to produce new sci-fi drama The Building
- 12 Onscreen Relationships Destroyed by a Man’s Novel
- LinkedIn Finally Blocked in Russia
- The National Book Awards Make a Powerful Statement
- What was not lost
- THOREAU WAS ACTUALLY FUNNY AS HELL
- Top Underdog
- 9 Literary Daughters With Page-Turning Stories to Tell
- The six finalists for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction awards
- Michael Fraser wins the 2016 CBC Poetry Prize
- ALA President Julie Todaro Releases Statement on Libraries, the Association, Diversity and Inclusion
- Overdrive Launches New Library Websites and App
- What It Means To Be A Writer In The Time Of Trump
- Karl Ove Knausgaard on Out of the World
- BookBaby Launches 2017 Self-Publishing Survey
- Refinery29 is combining newsletters and podcasts with UnStyled
- Life begins at thirty for Honno
- How do you speak to children about grief? This award-winning author is opening a dialogue
- Jarett Kobek: ‘The internet has been enormously detrimental to society’
- New Data From National Science Foundation: Universities Report Four Years Of Declining Federal Funding For R&D
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