Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Trump fatigue? The good times for politics publishers are over
- Accent's Kate Field wins Joan Hessayon Award
- Anthony Horowitz: I was warned off including black character
- Colorado: An “Unprecedented Rise in Security-Related Incidents and Illegal Behavior” at Denver’s Central Library
- How to Make a Stubborn Donkey Move: Advice for Writers Under Dictatorship in the Internet Age
- LITERARY TOURISM: TRAVEL THE WORLD’S BOOK TOWNS
- “WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW” IS NOT GOOD WRITING ADVICE
- Start the presses: Indie publishing on the rise
- Publishing staffers say age is a workplace issue
- Sheriff David Clarke Plagiarized Parts of His Master’s Thesis: Report
- Northwestern University: New Library Archivist Position Focuses on Black Experience Students, Faculty
- Indian Filmmakers Call for Overhaul of "Outdated" Censorship System
- When tweeters attack: why do readers send authors their bad reviews?
- Your Camera Wants to Kill the Keyboard
- Manchester publishers 'shocked and sombre' after Arena attack
- Green Carnation award goes to Aids history How to Survive a Plague
- Cultural Heritage: CLIR Awarded $170,000 Grant to Develop and Launch Prototype of Digital Library of Middle East
- NEH Chairman William D. Adams Announces Resignation
- What Is It About Haruki Murakami That Mesmerizes People?
- DÉJÀ BOOK: PLACING UNFAIR EXPECTATIONS ON YOUR READING
- Amazon will be opening a bookstore in L.A.
- Announcing the 2016 Nebula Awards Winners
- Roger Moore delivered final manuscript before he died
- Hansen and Butler Ask, “Does Fair Use Affect Academic Authors’ Incentive to Write? Some Lessons from Authors of Works from the GSU Course Reserves Case”
- This Is Awesome
- BOOKSELLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: WHEN YOUR STORE IS A PHOTO OP
- Top 10 unlikely romantic heroes in fiction
- Why Your Next Favorite Fictional Protagonist Might Be on the Autism Spectrum
- Too much too young?
- Bill Gates Discusses His Lifelong Love for Books and Reading
- Report: “Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen”
- Unseen Sylvia Plath poems deciphered in carbon paper
- SIMPLEX, COMPLEX, MULTIPLEX: SAMUEL R. DELANY AND EXPERIENCE VS. READING
- VERA PAVLOVA WRITES POEMS TO BE READ BY THE LIGHT OF A SINGLE MATCH
- A Bookstore Is Born To Honor Slain Journalist Charnice Milton
- Michael Whelan’s Webmaster On Fighting Online Art Theft
- Sarah Ward wins Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize
- Chaos, new book about the Manson murders, coming in 2019
- “POULTRY?” NO, POETRY. ON MOVING FROM VERSE TO MEMOIR
- Learning to Read May Reshape Adult Brains
- Chinese Historic Bookstore Chain Turns 80
- Gordon Korman, Donna Morrissey pick up honours at Arthur Ellis Awards
- ANNOUNCING THE 2017 O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES
- Case of the changing jacket
- First Book of Dust novel to be called 'La Belle Sauvage'
- Martin Luther: Father of protest songs?
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