Here is the top literary news of the week:
- WHS Travel to run gay literature promotion to tie into LGBTQ landmark
- Digital textbooks save Indiana University students millions
- ONE AMERICAN’S 44-YEAR BATTLE TO REBUILD SHAKESPEARE’S THEATER
- Hey Hey, It's World Book Day!
- The saga of a first-time author
- Lissa Evans: how my novel about film-making was turned into a film
- FORGOTTEN BOOKS THAT WERE ONCE CALLED CLASSICS
- The Official Origin Of James Bond To Be Told As A Comic Book, Announced At 2017 Diamond Summit
- IPA’s Kolman talks copyright and freedom to publish in China's Chengdu
- Medieval Medical Books Could Hold the Recipe for New Antibiotics
- We Need a GitHub for Academic Research
- Research Article: “Graphic Novels: Collecting, Cataloging and Outreach in an Academic Library”
- MEET THIS 7-YEAR-OLD SYRIAN GIRL WRITING A MEMOIR ABOUT LIFE UNDER SIEGE
- Wikipedia founder to fight fake news with new Wikitribune site
- Hachette and Book People partner to promote Enid Blyton
- University of Michigan Library Acquires New Set of Orson Welles Materials Including Completed But Unproduced Scripts
- 'Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' Author Robert M. Pirsig Dies At 88
- Elizabeth Gaskell: Charlotte Brontë's unlikely defender against prurient gossip
- Inside the Ruins: On Derek Walcott’s Life and Work
- Your CBC Poetry Prize writing tip of the week
- The Two-Bodied King of “Richard II” and Its Trumpian Delusion
- A MACHINE THAT ALLOWS LIBRARIES TO CLEAN THOUSANDS OF BOOKS
- California: “New Round of Layoffs May All But Decimate San Diego School Libraries”
- Granta reveals its Best of Young US Novelists 2017
- International prize for Arabic fiction goes to Mohammed Hasan Alwan
- Gary Barwin, Mona Awad make 2017 Leacock Medal longlist
- Jeff VanderMeer & Cory Doctorow Discuss the Future of Sci-Fi & the World
- LIFE ADVICE FROM THE LATE ROBERT M. PIRSIG
- House Passes Copyright Office Reform Bill
- Do you need me to draw you a picture? Book illustrators demand equal status
- Lotinga urges government to support success as PA stats reveal record 2016
- BLOGGER ALAI WINS MAJOR CASE AGAINST UHURU
- THE BOOKS THAT MADE YOUR FAVORITE WRITERS WANT TO WRITE
- Why the United States Government Embraced the Occult
- MORE BOOKS ABOUT DEITIES FOR AMERICAN GODS FANS
- Frequent readers make the best lovers, say dating-app users
- Jeff Bezos just $5bn away from being world’s richest person
- Granta Made Us Obsessed With “Best Young Novelist” Lists
- New PA president Tribe sets out priorities, as Redmayne made v.p.
- Turow Decries Internet Archive's "Smash and Grab"
- Ready to Launch: Ontario Library Research Cloud, a Large-Scale Shared Storage Network, Opens May 1st
- A Q&A with Dave Lucey, co-owner of North Carolina’s Page 158 Books, on moving a bookstore
- The Gospel According to Neil Gaiman
- DC bookshop is part of independent bookstores’ comeback
- Independent Bookstore Day, the six main arcs in storytelling, and more
- Turkey Blocks Access to Wikipedia
- World Press Freedom Index Places Russia Behind Uganda
- Katherena Vermette's The Break takes home 3 prizes at Manitoba Book Awards
- Tory MP makes 'discrimination' complaint over Jhalak Prize
- Hans Christian Andersen Award winners on exhibition
- The posthumous warning of the thinker Zygmunt Bauman
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