Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Biblioburro: The amazing donkey libraries of Colombia
- Quick Reads scrapped for 2019 after sponsor search fails
- UNC Greensboro chosen as Hosting Partner for CALLAM
- What Lord of the Flies is really about
- Comic Store in Your Future: Variant Covers Are Not the Answer
- HBG Reaches Out to the Community
- Readers encouraged to 'ditch burdensome books' for WBN
- Spillane’s Mike Hammer Goes Graphic
- Preserving endangered wonders of the world, for generations to come
- SILENT SPRING IS MORE THAN A SCIENTIFIC LANDMARK: IT’S LITERATURE
- Chicago Sun-Times leaves front page blank, pleads for subscribers: 'We need you to be there for us'
- Fifty authors call on book industry to ditch plastic
- Breaking; Barnes & Noble is adding a kids graphic novel section
- UCLA Library builds worldwide digital archival network
- Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn Is Doing a New Series for Amazon
- SOMETIMES THE BEST WAY TO READ IS TO MARK UP THE BOOK
- Sales Figures for Comey’s ‘A Higher Loyalty’ Dwarf Recent Political Best Sellers
- Two years after adopting slower publishing, The Times of London sees 15 percent subscriber jump
- Nasrallah takes $50k International Prize for Arabic Fiction
- Student group says restricting copyright exceptions will hurt education
- Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine
- Want to earn more as a book author? A male name will help
- Amazon won’t let users review James Comey’s new book if they didn’t purchase it through the site
- Amazon under fire from PA president Redmayne
- Library of Congress and Bibliothèque Nationale de France Announce Collaboration on International Digital Content
- Aurora library display prompts both hate and censorship claims
- WHEN THE WILDFIRES OF YOUR NOVEL COME TO LIFE AROUND YOU
- A new George RR Martin book planned _ but not THAT book
- Strange bedfellows: what Elliott Advisors wants with Waterstones
- Jon Parrish Peede Confirmed as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
- What of the lowly page number
- 'Crisis' at Swedish Academy jeopardises 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Thousands of illegal publications destroyed in crackdown
- Telcos must disclose more data about internet shutdowns, say civil society groups
- The curious case of fake currency notes from the “Children Bank of India”
- Revealed: The Four Articles That Got Wikipedia Banned in Turkey
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