Here is the top literary news of the week:
- AILA Rescinds Sherman Alexie’s 2008 YA Book of the Year Award
- Bookselling contributes €132m to Irish economy
- Public Library Association brings Short Story Dispensers to U.S. public libraries
- Blank Comic Goes to Eighth Printing
- This artist alters books into haunting 3D sculptures
- Critics and Activists Add Ferment to Religion Publishing
- Women react to publishing's gender pay gap revelations
- Markham library apologizes for censoring photo exhibit
- Publishers Are Urged to Monitor Amazon Buy Buttons
- Bill Murray Reads the Poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Wallace Stevens, Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Lorine Niedecker, Lucille Clifton & More
- WHEN A BOOKSTORE STANDS AGAINST CENSORSHIP
- US poet laureate Tracy K. Smith to serve second term
- Google’s GDPR consent plan could be a template for other tech giants
- The Crystal Ball of the Literature World Has Picked These 10 Writers to Watch This Year
- Galley Beggar opens submissions exclusively to women
- Northern Ireland library staff threatened over honouring former Israeli president
- YOUNG WRITERS NEED TO BELIEVE THEIR STORIES MATTER
- McCain to release 'no-holds-barred' verdict on Trump
- 'Lost' manuscripts of Charlotte Brontë to be published
- New and Online For the First Time From the Library of Congress: Archival Materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Government to invest £150m in creative industries
- Ireland loves single-sentence fiction and that’s totally fine
- Jay Bernard’s ‘personal and brave’ poetry wins Ted Hughes award
- Quarto's children's sales grow but profits plunge in 'tough year'
- Seattle Public Library Will Now Install Sharps Containers at Some Branches
- 'Deeply weird and enjoyable': Ursula K Le Guin's electronica album
- HOW TEACHING A WRITING CLASS HELPED ME PAY OFF A MOB BOSS
- Trump Attacks Amazon, Saying It Does Not Pay Enough Taxes
- Knopf Doubleday publicist eviscerates industry with hilarious ‘job ad’
- Daylight’s raving time
- Why The Number Of Independent Bookstores Increased During The 'Retail Apocalypse'
- Who doesn’t read books in America?
- ‘Women Make the News’: Online Database Connects Journalists to Thai Female Experts
- U.S. Copyright Office Announces New Division: The Copyright Modernization Office
- Russia Bans Popular LGBT Website for 'Propaganda of Nontraditional Sexual Relations'
- Big Green Bookshop campaign sees nature title sent to Haringey schools
- Public talks hope to preserve ancient art
- Even the Tolstoy Museum Thanked This Israeli Reader Who Found a Gaffe in 'Anna Karenina'
- The Latest Battleground for Authors’ Rights
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