Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Author Neil Gaiman Will Perform Reading Of Cheesecake Factory Menu If Fans Donate Half-Million Dollars To Refugees
- Whitehead wins Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize 2017
- Five College Consortium Opens $14 Million Remote Storage Facility in Hatfield, Massachusetts
- Bad memories: Colm Tóibín urges authors to lose the flashbacks
- Bribing Palestinians and Censoring Textbooks: What the Early Years of the Occupation Were Like
- The Handmaid's Tale tops book charts after TV series UK debut
- Facing the silver screen
- A Gift to the Future: In Defense of Keeping a Journal
- LITERARY TOURISM: SEATTLE (TAKE TWO)
- 24 Incredible Books To Add To Your Shelf This Summer
- The Year of the Blockbuster Novel
- Mostly Books sold to 'passionate' book lover
- Frank Deford, Legendary Sports Journalist, Dies at 78
- National Library of Norway to Digitize Material From Nigeria’s National Library
- Publishers renew focus on search optimization — and find new tricks
- Mortgages, marriage and millennial angst: rewriting what it means to be adult
- Baltimore Book Festival cancels Rachel Dolezal appearance after backlash
- Audible Creates $5 Million Fund for Emerging Playwrights
- Literary projects among the recipients of Creative Victoria’s arts grants
- Stephen Fry: Facebook and other platforms should be classed as publishers
- Australia: “Unstacked” is a Time-Based Visualisation of Materials People are Accessing From the State Library of New South Wales Collection
- WHAT COUNTS AS STANDARD? ON BLACK ENGLISH AND BLACK AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
- National Willa Cather Center to open in Nebraska
- The Amazon Bookstore Isn’t Evil. It’s Just Dumb.
- UPDATE: Russia Seeks Suspended Sentence For Ukrainian Library Director
- PAUL BEATTY FACES CONTROVERSIAL (RACIAL) INTERVIEW IN AUSTRALIA
- Why Literary Journals Don’t Pay
- Marketing vs Publicity
- REMEMBERING DENIS JOHNSON: “ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE AND IT COULD BE EXTRAORDINARY”
- How Outlander fans helped Diana Gabaldon change the TV portrayal of Jamie Fraser's sexual assault
- European publishers ask EC to 'close the circle' after e-book VAT vote
- Innovation in Scholarly Book Publishing: Reimagining the Digital Monograph
- READING ACROSS AMERICA: HOW TO BRAND YOUR READING SERIES
- Amazon bringing 1,500-plus jobs to Fresno with planned warehouse
- 5 Reasons Amazon Should Keep Opening Brick-and-Mortar Stores
- Author Neil Gaiman Will Perform Reading Of Cheesecake Factory Menu If Fans Donate Half-Million Dollars To Refugees
- German Bundestag Adopts Open Data Act
- Marina Kemp launches creative writing masterclasses
- ‘Kavikko’ Abdul Rahman passes away
- Historic Irish library could make more than £1.8m at auction
- Dear Canadian writers: Stop apologizing for who you are and share your truth
- Can an Alphabet Merging Hebrew and Arabic Promote Coexistence?
- Eight writers to immerse themselves in current Portuguese literature
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