November 17, 2018

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• Bram Stoker's reference materials for Dracula discovered at the London Library

• Libraries combine on first ever 'Great North West Read'

• The New York Times Digitizes Millions of Historical Photos Using Google Cloud Technology

• iSchool Launches New Hub For Public Libraries Research

• MTA VERSUS MFA: ON TRAINS AS WRITING SPACES

• J. K. Rowling’s Assistant Reportedly Scammed the Hell Out of Her

• Letterpress Publisher Arion Press for Sale

• Jerome Corsi, formerly of InfoWars, expects to be indicted by Mueller investigation

• Tayari Jones talks about the novel that changed her life

• Stan Lee Is Dead at 95; Superhero of Marvel Comics

• Amazon goes bicoastal, will open HQs in New York, DC suburb

• Anna Foley Simmons scoops the inaugural Thinking Woman's Writing Award

• USDA Partners with Communities to Bring High-Speed Broadband e-Connectivity Infrastructure to Rural Areas

• Why political books for kids are more popular than ever – and six you should definitely read

• LGBTQ People Erased From Books In Russia Under ‘Gay Propaganda’ Law

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine named public's favourite at BAMB Awards

• ‘It’s a relationship’: Why Quartz is leaning on community for its first membership product

• De Gruyter and University of California Press enter partnership

• POETRY IS INFINITE: A CONVERSATION WITH JEFFREY SCHULTZ

• * National Book Awards: Sigrid Nunez wins fiction prize as Isabel Allende is honoured

• Jones, Nichol and Baddiel pen WHSmith books of the year

• Robin Robertson wins Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction with The Long Take

• New School Book Borrowing Policy Has Some Mahwah Parents Upset

• Librarians to the rescue! A brief history of heroic bibliophiles

• How a new wave of graphic novels is revitalizing classics — and pushing diversity

• The History of First Ladies’ Memoirs

• 'Toxic' beats 'gammon' and 'cakeism' to win Oxford Dictionaries' word of 2018

• Liu Cixin wins 2018 Arthur C Clarke lifetime award

• Bozeman's only used bookstore looking for new owner

• Dostoevsky book among hundreds banned in Kuwait

• The Alaïa Museum Takes Shape—One Year After the Couturier’s Death, a Bookstore Opens at His Marais Flagship

• Anythink to become early adopter of community engagement system for public libraries

• WHEN A STORY IS BEST TOLD BACKWARDS

• Netizen Report: Tanzania’s crackdown on free speech targets media advocates from CPJ

• Stan Lee and Marvel saved the comic-book industry after the US Congress tried to kill it

• Introducing the new breed of indie booksellers

• William Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘Butch Cassidy’ and ‘All the President's Men,’ dies at 87

• The NDL announces the launch of an English-language user interface to the WARP.

• Can a man write a feminist novel?

• Participating in NaNoWriMo? Pasha Malla says embrace the desperation

• Phishing Scam Seeking Manuscripts Spreads Worldwide

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