Here is the top literary news of the week:
- The Witcher Author Gets No Money From The Games
- Pictures of the week
- Intellectual Property: “New Bill Would Let Trump Pick the Next Register of Copyrights”
- Every Writer Needs an Editor, Especially if that Writer is Also an Editor
- MAKING FRIENDS IN A NEW CITY VIA OUR LITTLE FREE LIBRARY
- WGA Negotiators Call for Strike Authorization
- What to know about Germany’s fake-news crackdown
- Swell of support for New Beacon Books helps raise £10k
- Will Barnes and Noble Release a New E-Reader in 2017?
- When Nonfiction Goes Graphic, Readers Win
- IF FICTION CHANGES THE WORLD, IT’S GOING TO BE YA
- Gender-Neutral Pronoun “They” Adopted by Associated Press
- Barry Jenkins’ ‘The Underground Railroad’ in the works at Amazon
- Amazon confirms acquisition of Souq, marking its move into the Middle East
- Indie presses dominate Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist
- David Storey obituary
- Raid reveals how publishers are losing millions to book pirates
- THE HOLLOW WOMAN: FEMALE CHARACTERS IN SCIENCE FICTION
- N.W.A, David Bowie, Talking Heads, ‘All Things Considered’ Join National Recording Registry
- Orwell-inspired anthology raises funds as UK prepares to leave the EU
- Cal State Northridge Students Campaign to Keep Geography Map Library Together
- INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE AS ESSENTIAL POLITICAL ACT
- The 12 books that helped form billionaire Jeff Bezos' leadership style
- Here are the winners of the 2017 PEN Literary Awards
- CONSTANT STIMULATION AND COCKTAILS AT THE 2017 PEN LITERARY AWARDS
- The Wall Street Journal newsroom staff demands diversity
- Fiona Watt: the most ubiquitous author you’ve never heard of
- Watch the Terrifying First Trailer for Stephen King’s ‘It’
- University of Rochester Libraries Acquire Unknown Susan B. Anthony Letters Found in Old Barn
- In our Google era, indexers are the unsung heroes of the publishing world
- TIPS FOR DONATING OLD BOOKS WITHOUT BEING A JERK
- HBO, Rai to Adapt Elena Ferrante’s ‘My Brilliant Friend’ as Drama Series
- Daughter of Author Who Wrote Dating Profile for Husband Finishes Her Late Mother’s Final Project: ‘She Is in My Heart’
- Washington: King County Library System’s Director Resigns Amid Conduct Review
- The Founding Fathers Encrypted Secret Messages, Too
- WE ARE ALL DETECTIVES NOW: WHEN LITERARY PLOTS GET MYSTERIOUS
- Journalists for U.S. News Group Attacked in Southern Russia
- Daily Mail runs £20k debut crime novel competition
- Wits University Press triumphs with 3 book awards at the Humanities and Social Sciences Book Awards 2017
- Nunavut's delay of bilingual education a threat to Inuit language, says critic
- Barnes & Noble To Close on Bethesda Row
- How psychoanalyst Thomas Ogden found his true self in fiction
- Boom Times for the New Dystopians
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