Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Orchid creates internet protocol to defeat censorship and surveillance
- South Carolina’s Silver City Comics Closes Today
- ORLANDO ANIMAL SHELTER SORTS DOGS INTO HOGWARTS HOUSES
- Barnes and Noble bookstore in Lahaina to close at end of the year
- THE GRADUATE RESEARCH PAPER THAT HELPED ME SOLVE A CENTURY-OLD CRIME
- After Family Christian’s Collapse, New Stores and Opportunities Arise
- Jane Juska, who wrote about late-in-life sex, dies at 84
- New Online: University of Iowa Libraries Launches Hevelin Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror to Read, Transcribe
- Boy with autism wins Book People's Bedtime Story Competition
- HOW TO SPEND A LITERARY LONG WEEKEND IN BOSTON
- WHY WE NEED NANCY DREW RIGHT NOW
- The state of news subscriptions in 5 charts
- Waterstones sale 'makes sense', say analysts, as trade anxiety spikes
- Outlander Star and Writers Clash Over Controversial Book Change
- Southern Illinois University: Publishing: Morris Library Acquires ‘Cricket’ Children’s Literary Magazine Records
- HOW TO SKEWER A NOVEL: ÉRIC CHEVILLARD ON FLORIAN ZELLER
- Goodreads Choice Awards 2017 opens
- Publisher's Weekly's Best Books of 2017
- Hill and Dickinson fall foul of Amazon fake e-book scams
- Here are the winners of the 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards
- PRATT STUDENTS CURATE INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION FROM NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY PICTURE COLLECTION
- An A.I. Bot Named “Shelley” Is Generating Spooky Stories on Twitter
- Fake news is 'very real' word of the year for 2017
- Davita Vance-Cooks Leaves GPO Director Position For Job in Private Sector, Jim Bradley Named Interim Director
- Springer Nature blocks journal articles in China
- The most popular books in all 50 states, in one map
- WRITING THROUGH FEAR IS A WAY TO TAKE BACK POWER
- Book publishing still has a huge problem with women’s safety in the workplace
- The Randomness of Language Evolution
- The Internet reacts to Condé Nast’s decision to stop printing Teen Vogue
- State Security Agency (SSA) demand that publisher withdraw The President’s Keepers by Jacques Pauw from the stores and retract parts of the book
- APA completes buy of Rough Guides, promising 'revitalisation'
- Funding: Pryor Center (U. of Arkansas) Announces $1.5 Million Tyson Gift to Digitize KATV News Archive Collection (26,000 Hours of Footage)
- Funding: Pryor Center (U. of Arkansas) Announces $1.5 Million Tyson Gift to Digitize KATV News Archive Collection (26,000 Hours of Footage)
- ‘The Bible,’ ‘Harry Potter’ among Kansas City Public Library’s top missing books
- American arrested over tweet 'insulting' Robert Mugabe
- SoA urges Freight liquidator to revert authors' rights
- Cherie Dimaline wins U.S. Kirkus Prize for The Marrow Thieves
- The invisible ink that can be made visible, then invisible, and visible again
- 'You Feel All That Loss in One Image': Anne Frank's Diary Re-imagined as an Edgy Graphic Novel
- How Kipling helped quell an Indian mutiny in first world war trenches
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