Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Stan Lee Sues Hands of Respect’s Jerry Olivarez, Claiming Elder Abuse
- Diversity Library on the move once more
- A song of Iceland fire
- The perfect crimes: why thrillers are leaving other books for dead
- 12 Literary Scandals That Are So Much Stranger Than Fiction
- THE SWEDISH ACADEMY COLLAPSES. TWO ADDITIONAL MEMBERS HAVE RESIGNED.
- Comey's Trump exposé gets early release
- Librarian of Congress, honored by Newberry, wants America to see our treasures
- Opinion: Don’t Call Me a Genius
- Let’s Stop Writing Books About 'Girls'
- Announcement of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners
- Egan, Myers and Lynch in contention for Walter Scott Prize
- A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain
- A New Generation of African-American-Owned Bookstores
- How the Financial Times fights subscriber churn
- Amazon unveils international shopping app
- Papers of Benjamin Franklin Now Online
- “INTUITION IS ESSENTIAL.” WRITING ADVICE FROM GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
- Literary journals are giving Africans a space to “write back” at the global culture
- Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg nabs book deal on making of #NeverAgain movement
- Nicole Kidman attached to star in adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's The Female Persuasion
- UK Local election candidates urged to champion libraries
- Benetech Signs Agreement with EIFL to Expand Access to International Libraries Using Bookshare
- THE BOTTOMLESS GENEROSITY OF THE WRITER’S MEMOIR
- When a Feminist Artist Is Censored by a Feminist Gallery
- Macmillan learns its lesson, publicly announces an initial print run of 850,000 for James Comey’s A Higher Loyalty
- Library computers being targeted by hackers
- Getting the reading fix
- INTERVIEW WITH A BOOKSTORE: CITY OF ASYLUM BOOKS
- BOOKS WE DON’T WANT MADE INTO MOVIES
- Canadian students win $25,000 national poetry competition
- Will Singapore's plan to combat ‘deliberate online falsehoods’ stifle free speech?
- The Swiss Woman Spreading the Gospel of 'Intelligent, Feminist, Life-changing' Porn
- How I fell in love with writing as a little girl
- Elena Ferrante: ‘God didn’t make a good impression on my teenage self’
- Kanye West publishing philosophy book in real time on Twitter
- Broadway producers of To Kill a Mockingbird countersue Harper Lee's estate
- British Book Publishers Fear Brexit Will Bring a U.S. Invasion
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