Here is the top literary news of the week:
- US libraries report spike in Islamophobic hate speech since election
- Times New Roman Falls Victim of U.S. Sanctions
- HighWire Press buys Semantico
- Books Can Be Powerful Weapons, But Not These Books
- Bob Dylan is ‘sorry’ he didn’t show up to accept the Nobel Prize
- Bob Dylan just offered the world a master class in how to accept a Nobel Prize
- The pitfalls of sponsored content, in 5 charts
- Books on the Underground to hand out self-published titles
- ALL WRITING IS A KIND OF EXILE
- More Machine Readable Data: “Senate Passes Open Government Act”
- Golden Globe Nominations: Complete List
- HOW WRITERS ARE GETTING BACK TO WORK
- Beedle the Bard copy raises nearly £370,000 at auction
- THE FEMINIST LEGACY OF THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB
- The New York Public Library and Macmillan Announce Book and Ebook Publishing Partnership
- New analysis shows extent of England's library book spend drop
- YouTuber, Bama and Brexit among new words in Oxford English Dictionary
- RIP, Shirley Hazzard
- “We live in the era that will be characterized by the death of bees and the rebirth of fascism.”
- Prague's Hottest New Reading Spot Is a Zeppelin on Top of an Art Gallery
- CRACKING THE NAMES BEHIND A CHRISTMAS CAROL
- The 12 most underrated Canadian novels of 2016
- Andreï Makine uses Académie française induction to attack 'ignorant' Hollande
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story global publishing program rolled out
- BOOKSELLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE PERILS OF SHOPPING LOCAL
- Jacket Notes: Christa Kuljian talks about her latest book Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins
- Alumnus Norman Powell makes $5 million gift to UCLA Library
- Lawrence Hill, Colson Whitehead nominated for NAACP Image Awards
- Most Expensive Science Book Sells for $3.7 Million
- Patti Smith explains Bob Dylan lyric flub in candid essay
- Leaked EU proposals cracking down on data consent victimise publishers, says the IAB
- Bongiorno wins 2016 ACT Book of the Year
- Celebrating Letters
- HUMAN HAIR, DOLLS CLOTHES, LOVE LETTERS AND OTHER STRANGE THINGS FOUND IN OLD BOOKS
- AAP Sends Letter to President-Elect Donald Trump
- 'Ambitious' W H Smith aims to expand Bookshop portfolio
- This Book Designer Redesigned The Bible As A Novel
- THE UNCLASSIFIABLE ESSAYS OF ELIOT WEINBERGER
- A Fresh Bag of Bananas
- WHY I LOVE RE-READING BOOKS
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