October 20, 2018

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• Stephen Hawking Predicted Superhumans Will Destroy Humanity

• Setzer and Al Qasimi confirmed to lead IPA

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

• HOW THE COMMUNIST BLACKLIST SHAPED THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY AS WE KNOW IT

• Why We Need Erotica

• Will fake news carry Brazil's favored far-right candidate to victory?

• The Iranian-American Couple Dominating Persian Cookbooks

• Public nominations invited for National Poetry Day anthology

• Unseen tales reveal the young Rudyard Kipling honing his skills

• NO, I CAN’T BRAID YOUR HAIR: WHY LIBRARIANS NEED BOUNDARIES TOO

• One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too

• Sales of dropped Man Booker longlistees outstrip finalists

• What Norwegian publisher Aller Media has learned from its personalized paywall

• 'Forgotten' female poet of first world war to be honoured at armistice centenary

• The Music Modernization Act is now law which means some pre-1972 music goes public

• HOW TO WRITE A FELLOWSHIP ESSAY WHEN SURROUNDED BY CHAOS

• Anna Burns wins 50th Man Booker Prize with Milkman!

• Taiwanese bookstore to open retail store in Tokyo

• Feminist Library crowdfunds for new Peckham home

• Trinity marks launch of Oscar Wilde digital collection with public lecture

• The Westworld, Deuce, and Maniac TV Writers Who Started Out as Novelists

• SUSAN ORLEAN: “LIBRARIANS ARE HEROIC.”

• Can picture books meet the crisis in children's mental health?

• 'Milkman' reprint soars to 100,000 after 'phenomenal demand'

• Report: STATE ARCHIVING IN THE DIGITAL ERA

• WHY AMERICA’S BEST POLITICAL NOVELIST IS REQUIRED READING IN 2018

• What are we teaching boys when we discourage them from reading books about girls?

• Todd Bol, creator of the Little Free Library movement, dies at 62

• Hodder withdraws sociology textbook over offensive statements

• National Heritage Digitization Strategy: 21 projects approved for funding across Canada

• JENNIFER EGAN: WHY PEN AMERICA IS SUING DONALD TRUMP

• Opinion: Bookers, Burns and bounces

• Gloria Steinem Recommended 35 Books For Strand Bookstore & It's Basically A Feminist Lit Primer

• Smartphones are endangering Iceland’s love of books

• Hong Kong Free Expression Week features Umbrella Movement activists and political cartoonist Badiucao

• Mozley wins Polari First Book Prize

• Libraries Addressing the Need for Sustainable Access to Scholarly Publications

• THE STRANGE, TRUE-LIFE STORY OF THE LITERARY SCAMMER LEE ISRAEL

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