November 3, 2018

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• Dark Horse Comics Receives Major Investment From Chinese Firm Vanguard Visionary Associates

• Secret Civil Servant to publish with Headline

• The Drama Book Shop to Close Doors in 2019

• Gotham Group, Chariot Entertainment Option Muslim YA Novel 'Internment' (Exclusive)

• Research Article: “Format Shift: Information Behavior and User Experience in the Academic E-book Environment”

• WHAT IT MEANS TO WRITE ABOUT MOTHERHOOD, PART TWO

• CBC Presents Inaugural Diversity Awards

• Books 'to outperform retail market this Christmas'

• NSF announces $78.2 million to support frontiers of cybersecurity, privacy research

• Ntozake Shange, Who Wrote ‘For Colored Girls,’ Is Dead at 70

• ARE YOU MISUSING THESE COMMON WORDS?

• Library petition hits 20k signatures after Rowling support

• To grow subscribers, The Wall Street Journal focuses on product testing

• Twitter’s rumored killing of the “like” button highlights its misplaced priorities

• Australian literature’s legacies of cultural appropriation

• Mama Bear knows best: The enduring problem with children’s picture books

• WHY CONTEMPORARY ART (AND LITERATURE) NEEDS MORE SARCASTIC CRITICS

• A New Resource for E-Books in the Public Domain: GITenberg Prototype Officially Launches

• Winners of the inaugural Women Poets’ Prize revealed

• Godzilla: King of the Monsters to be teased in graphic novel prequel

• LITERARY HOAX IS THE MOST UNDERAPPRECIATED GENRE

• Universal Credit threatens to drive working-class writers from profession, warns SoA

• Michael Lewis’ Latest Book ‘The Fifth Risk’ Acquired By The Obamas Under Their Netflix Production Deal

• Exempting Harvard’s Librarian-Scholars From the Work-for-Hire Doctrine

• READING ACROSS AMERICA: THE LONGEST RUNNING SERIES IN QUEENS

• 21 books Goldman Sachs execs think everyone should read this fall

• Donations Pour Into Northwest Iowa Library After Man Burns LGBTQ Books

• The Reading Agency urges for £200m government intervention and 'Book Relief'

• Amazon opens country's second 4-star store in the Denver area

• Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, more to moderate Michelle Obama book tour

• Freedom House Releases “Freedom on the Net Report 2018: The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism”; Internet Freedom Declines For 8th Consecutive Year

• Why Are We Only Talking About ‘Mom Books’ by White Women?

• The Golden Ratio of Sexism in Children’s Literature

• THE WEIRDOS OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE

• As poet laureate prepares to step down, the succession race begins

• Israel Bars Entry to Palestinian-American Writer Because She Didn't Coordinate Her Arrival

• Journalists’ safety is a challenge to democracy, says UNESCO ahead of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

• A project in Nepal is documenting and sharing testimonials from the 10-year armed conflict

• League of laureates join forces to mark two decades of role

• The Long-Overdue Recognition of Mexicanx Science Fiction at This Year’s WorldCon76

• AMAZON’S OWN PUBLISHED BOOKS ARE QUIETLY TAKING OVER THE SITE

• Academic Ethics: Should Scholars Avoid Citing the Work of Awful People?

• How to Write Consent in Romance Novels

• CBC Presents Inaugural Diversity Awards

• Library petition hits 20k signatures after Rowling support

• W H Smith buys US airport travel retailer InMotion

• Police are using artificial intelligence to spot written lies

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