October 13, 2018

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• The #metoo & #timesup Panel at NYCC: Is it Time for Comic Creators to Unionize?

• Painting converted to music in world-first art and sound project at State Library of NSW

• Mike Phipps joins 'growing' indie Sweet Cherry

• MEET THE BELOVED PET RAVENS OF CHARLES DICKENS

• How Feminist Bookstores Changed History

• Nobel-awarding Swedish Academy elects new members after rape scandal

• SoA welcomes PLR increase, urges action on loans decline

• Instagram Poetry Is A Huckster’s Paradise

• Mr Darcy’s reputation as romantic hero trashed at Cheltenham literature festival

• Growing Up in the Library

• Brazil’s National Museum Launches Rebuilding Efforts with Temporary Exhibition of Surviving Collection

• Ad buyers don’t expect many deals at this week’s NewFronts

• Century acquires Will Smith's memoir

• New words notes for October 2018

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accepts PEN Pinter prize with call to speak out

• It Took a Major Security Flaw for Google to Finally Shut Down Google Plus, the Web’s Least Useful Social Network

• Emma Suffield wins School Librarian of the Year Award

• NETFLIX ANNOUNCES NEW NARNIA SERIES

• UCLA Library launches international initiative to save at-risk cultural heritage materials

• WHEN YOU DISCOVER YOU’RE A CHARACTER IN SOMEONE ELSE’S NOVEL

• HC Buys Spanish Rights for Backman Books; Forms Spanish Acquisitions Board

• Found: An Ancient Roman Comic Strip With Speech Bubbles

• Success! The United States Ratifies the Marrakesh Treaty

• OUP reimagines Pippi in young reader format

• How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety

• WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WRITE A BOOK FULL OF BOOKS

• Alternative Nobel literature prize goes to Maryse Condé

• MLK Library's $211 million renovation focuses on the space being much more than books

• Detecting fake news at its source

• WH Smith to close stores amid 'challenging conditions' on high street

• Chuck Wendig Fired from Marvel’s Shadow of Vader Over Social Media Presence

• Publisher warnings as cyber criminals attempt to pilfer manuscripts

• Under Austria's right-wing government, ‘ethical’ principles for journalists could hijack media rights

• Laurie Gelman's Class Mom captures fiction prize at Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature

• New "staffless" library offers 24-hour public access

• Supreme Court justices love to quote Dickens to oppose solitary confinement

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