Here is the top literary news of the week:
- ‘Jihadists were going to burn it all’: the amazing story of Timbuktu’s book smugglers
- Oregon: “Roseburg Library Staff Prepares For Closure: ‘We’re All Looking For Work'” (Permanent Closure of All Douglas County Libraries)
- American Gods Is Spoiler-Proof Television
- CALLING A LIE A LIE: ON THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF DONALD TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY
- The Best Indie Bookstores In Every Major U.S. City
- 9 Secrets of Ghostwriters
- NewFronts publishers see an opening with recent YouTube, Facebook ad crises
- American Gods
- RAND Corp. Publishes Results of an Evaluation of National Science Digital Library Program
- ‘What is a heart? You have an organ in your body and you have a symbol of love’
- MURAKAMI VS. BOLAÑO: COMPETING VISIONS OF THE GLOBAL NOVEL
- Salma Hayek Gives The Mexican Slang Lesson You Didn’t Know You Needed
- "Modern Love" Column "You May Want to Marry My Husband" in Heated Bidding War
- Trump drops the mother of all bombs on libraries
- SoA calls on next government to offer 'more than just words' to support authors
- THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF AMERICAN WORKING-CLASS LITERATURE
- THE CURIOUS SOLITUDE OF THE WEBCOMICS READER
- James Bond, Lord of the Rings, Narnia – the books we most pretend to have read
- Writers Strike Avoided As the WGA Reaches a New Deal With the AMPTP
- Colson Whitehead leads Arthur C Clarke award shortlist
- Myriad merges with New Internationalist
- Lionsgate TV Adapting British Historian's Epic 'Jerusalem'
- Oregon: “Roseburg Library Staff Prepares For Closure: ‘We’re All Looking For Work'” (Permanent Closure of All Douglas County Libraries)
- Book collecting: a gentle madness or license to print money?
- 5 SHORT CLASSICS TO READ DURING RUSSIAN LITERATURE WEEK
- HOW THE SCRAPPIEST SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM IN PUBLISHING IS HOLDING THE INDUSTRY’S FEET TO THE FIRE
- Book recommendation company Lovereading seeks buyer
- When Ivanka Trump doesn’t promote her book, a helpful media steps in to do it for her
- Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey go head-to-head in first trailer for The Dark Tower
- NOT FINISHING MY NOVEL WOULD HAVE RUINED MY LIFE
- The Great Vietnamese Novel(s)
- Life drawing: the boom in comic-book biographies
- First adaptation of HG Wells' The War of the Worlds
- HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD IS COMING TO AMERICA
- Third-Party Sellers Can Now “Win” the Buy Box on Amazon and What That Means for Authors
- An Opioid Death Prompts Denver Public Library To Keep Overdose Antidote On Hand
- STATE CENSORSHIP: HOW THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CAME TO DEFINE OBSCENITY
- Asian-American Superhero The Green Turtle Returns!
- Librarians Take Capitol Hill
- A matter of life and death: William Boyd on the rise of the surgeon-memoir
- Revolution: writing for the nation
- How Canada launched Vikram Vij's culinary empire
- Six West African books with unconventional approaches to gender and power, as recommended by Chinelo Okparanta
- Precious Party archives make a public debut
- Opinion: Emphasis on books is our curriculum’s biggest fault
- Bogotá39-2017: present the list of the 39 best fiction writers in Latin America under 40 years
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