October 27, 2018

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• Alain Mabanckou’s novel ‘Black Moses’ wins 2018 Hurston/Wright fiction award

• Strong economic case for taking VAT off digital publications, report finds

• 11th Circ. Says Ga. Can't Copyright State Code Annotations

• Top Dog Comics Launches in Augusta, Georgia

• ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF LOCATING THE LINE BETWEEN FICTION AND NON

• "World's largest book sale" comes to Middle East at giant hangar in Dubai

• Mr B's crowdfunder smashes original target, looks further

• Historical Fiction Is Hot in Europe

• ‘Twelfth Night’-Inspired Musical TV Series With Gender Identity Theme In Works At Amazon From Steven Sater, Lauren Gussis

• THE LIFE OF THE WRITER/MUSICIAN

• Iowa man burns LGBTQ children's books from public library to protest pride festival

• Museum of the Bible in D.C. removes items billed as Dead Sea Scrolls after experts find they are not authentic

• Twitter removes accounts linked to Alex Jones, Infowars

• Femi Kayode wins Little, Brown Award for crime fiction

• Poet laureate writes sonnet for Danny Boyle's Armistice Day centenary events

• LEV GROSSMAN: WHY WE’VE ALWAYS NEEDED FANTASTIC MAPS

• To Kill a Mockingbird voted top 'Great American Read' in US poll

• Cooper takes inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize

• ‘There’s nothing easy about social’: Weed publishers try to work around digital hurdles

• The Art Institute of Chicago Is the Latest Museum to Offer Open Access to Thousands of Images in Its Archive

• Tina Turner: By the Book

• THE PSYCHIATRIST WHO TRIED TO SAVE SYLVIA PLATH

• The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature

• Orwell Foundation to launch political fiction prize

• With One Strong Word, ‘The Hate U Give’ Couldn’t Hold Its Tongue

• How the apartheid regime burnt books in their tens of thousands

• New Journal Article: “What is all This Fuss About? Is Wrong Metadata Really Bad for Libraries and Their End-Users?”

• THE YEAR I STOPPED READING WHITE PEOPLE

• Announcing the 2018 Kirkus Prize Winners

• Waterstones formally completes Foyles purchase

• Book business is strong, especially for indie stores, but rising real estate costs pose threat

• Imprint consolidation at big houses is a sign of changed times

• Roper Center to create world’s most comprehensive health opinion database

• Emma Thompson Joins 'How to Build a Girl'

• THIS SELF-HELP BOOK IS THE PUBLISHING PHENOMENON OF 2018

• Exit polls show Ireland has voted to remove blasphemy laws from their constitution

• Arrested in Saudi Arabia, and then disappeared: Yemeni writer Marwan Almuraisy

• Death by bureaucracy? Russian regulators slap independent news site with sky-high fine

• The Diagram Prize 2018 shortlist revealed

• Ontario University Libraries openly release over seven decades of historical public opinion polls and guide

• Here are the finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards

• Malayalam author Benyamin’s 'Jasmine Days' wins first JCB Prize for literature

• Unseen Sylvia Plath short story to be published in January

• The ‘Doctor Zhivago’ Nobel Dust-up

• The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why?

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