Here is the top literary news of the week:
- UNESCO Shares the Latest Global Literacy Data in New Factsheet
- DON’T MAKE VIOLENCE AND ABUSE JUST ANOTHER PLOT DEVICE IN YOUR NOVEL
- OUR FAVORITE LITERARY GRANDPARENTS
- #KidsConf17 speakers' insight
- The Word That Never Existed
- When An Antisemite Asks For A Copy Of Coraline
- 'Angry boredom': early responses to Waiting for Godot showcased online
- Bookshops contribute £1.9bn to economy, says BA report
- Racism, Natural History, and Fiction
- Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Reads to Kids, Answers Staff Questions at the Rochester Public Library
- HOW ACADEMICS SURVIVE THE WRITING GRIND: SOME ANECDOTAL ADVICE
- Got Writer’s Block? Try Listening to Happy Music
- CBC: “Drunk, Abusive Customers Prompt Security to Increase at Calgary’s Nicholls Family Library” (Located Inside Train Station)
- Apple News is experimenting with ‘featured video’ section
- HOW SHOULD A MALE WRITER BE? ON THE TOXIC COMPETITIVENESS OF WRITERS
- 3 THINGS I LEARNED FROM RUNNING MY LIBRARY’S ADULT SUMMER READING PROGRAM
- Small publishers protest 'elitist' Women's Prize fees
- Man Booker Prize announces 2017 shortlist
- Canongate buys Severn House Publishers
- Tennessee: Memphis Public Libraries ‘Start Here’ With New Brand Campaign
- A CONVERSATION BETWEEN LITERARY TRANSLATORS MARIAN SCHWARTZ AND NICKY HARMAN
- Edgar Allan Poe Was a Broke-Ass Freelancer
- Amazon targets authors and marketers for alleged abuse of Kindle Direct Publishing system
- Amazon redacts one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton's What Happened
- J.P. Donleavy, Acclaimed Author of ‘The Ginger Man,’ Dies at 91
- Luath moves distribution to BookSource
- New York Public Library Receives $55 Million Gift to Renovate Mid-Manhattan Library, 2nd Largest Gift in History of NYPL
- 'Snow Whites' of Leuven
- Indie Publisher to Send Impeachment Guides to Congress
- The PA introduces diversity targets and 10-point plan
- ON THE IMPORTANCE OF SENDING AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ABROAD
- New Research Resource: U.S. Copyright Office Posts Archive of Briefs and Legal Opinions
- DOUBLE STANDARDS: INTEGRITY AND POC WOMEN IN THE LITERARY WORLD
- It's Looking Very Good for Syfy's Adaptation of George R.R. Martin's Scifi Horror Tale Nightflyers
- National Book awards 2017: Jesmyn Ward and Jennifer Egan among finalists
- Three of Granta's Young Novelists up for BBC Short Story Award
- New CBC creative writing challenge invites students to imagine Canada's future in 150 years
- El Archivo Bolano divide a los escritores mexicanos
- Local publisher to send Shanghai maths textbooks abroad
- The Most American Thing This Israeli Arab Writer Has Ever Done
- New Indigenous Digital Archive Opens at University of New Mexico Libraries
- Everything Amazon wants for HQ2, the massive new headquarters it’s planning in North America
- Indie Bookstores Embrace the Side Hustle
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