Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Turning the page: Howard County library director leaving after 16 years
- 'Japan is great' genre booms in bookshops
- No Need for Sainthood: On Grace Paley’s Enduring Humanity
- Tom Raworth obituary
- 10 DEBUT NOVELS THAT ARE ALSO THEIR AUTHORS’ MASTERPIECES
- Can Poetry Revolutionize the Parent-Teacher Conference?
- Wish I Were There: The Life and Times of a Travel Writer
- Warren Ellis: 'Now everything is insane and I’m loving it'
- Conference Paper: “Web Search as a Linguistic Tool”
- The Handmaid’s Fail
- SPECULATIVE FICTION IN TRANSLATION: EGYPT
- MOURNING MY GRANDFATHER THROUGH THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
- Empty satire: the regrettable rise of blank-paged books in the Trump era
- PRH UK to pay work experience participants in diversity drive
- Two Booksellers Set Date for Inaugural Texas Bookstore Day
- Mr. Joo-Hwan Park, newly-appointed Chief Executive of the National Library of Korea
- Promoting Indian literature
- FROM MUKASONGA TO ALEXIEVICH, WE NEED WRITERS WHO BEAR WITNESS
- Video Game based on movie based on comic to get comic based on video game based on movie based on comic
- In the duopoly’s shadow, Apple News is finding favor with some publishers
- Trade reacts to snap general election
- When Writing Is Actually About Waiting
- Indiana University Food Institute Expands to Include Library With Food Resources
- The Afterlife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- LOUISE GLÜCK ON REALISM AND FANTASY
- The Euphemism Treadmill
- Self-published author offers £10k prize to crack his book's code
- How to Resurrect a Lost Language
- The 2017 BTBA Finalists for Fiction and Poetry
- Repatriation Event: Three Items From Boston Public Library’s Special Collections Returned to Italy
- 10 Everyday Phrases That Come from Printing
- ON WRITING WHAT YOU KNOW, PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE, AND TEACHING DELILLO
- How to Read a Whole Damn Book Every Week
- Bill O'Reilly's Publisher Standing by Their Man
- Frappucinos Are Ephemeral, Unicorn Books Are Forever
- British adults are too busy to read, new research shows
- Man Booker International Prize Announces Shortlist
- THE HANDMAID’S TALE IS A WARNING TO CONSERVATIVE WOMEN
- Amazon breaks silence on Australian retail plans
- Enough David Foster Wallace, already! We need to read beyond our bubbles
- The Kekulé Problem
- A Poet’s History of Chicago
- Twitter Reportedly Caves to Russian Censors, Will Possibly Move Data to Russian Servers
- The bookshop politic
- Jews' Advantages to non-Jews': Religious Indoctrination Seeping Into Israeli Textbooks
- Shortlist for Short Sharp Stories Awards announced
- Rita Indiana Hernández wins Grand Prix of Literature in Guadeloupe
- Noise from printers led to arrest
- Young, smart and anything-but-white: surprise British bestseller 'The Good Immigrant'
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