September 22, 2018

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• Using Young Adult Novels to Make Sense of #MeToo

• Sunrise Comics 81-Year-Old Owner Closes Store After Almost 40 Years

• Library digitizes over 6,000 photos from Pirkle Jones/Ruth-Marion Baruch collection

• Book clinic: an alternative guide to Irish literature

• Inside Susan Sontag’s Extensive FBI File

• Tronc in 'early stage' discussions about sale to McClatchy newspaper chain

• FT/McKinsey reveal 'varied' shortlist for £30k Business Book of the Year

• Ankeny's new bookstore features thousands of used books and a smattering of new ones

• Grammy Museum-funded digitization project brings rare Charles Ives performances to the world

• Why Are Book Margins Stuck in the 1990s?

• Haruki Murakami withdraws from alternative Nobel prize

• Target Responds to Publisher Complaints, but Redactions Persist

• Amazon’s new small-businesses play is panned as pandering

• Film option to Delargy debut bought by Zucker/Prodigy

• DON’T WRITE A BOOK ABOUT CANCER, AND OTHER ADVICE

• Library of Congress Launches OFFICIAL Congressional Research Service Reports Portal

• Rumford Public Library's display of banned books will stay

• George Orwell archives added to Unesco Memory of the World register

• Pascal Pictures Acquires Uzma Jalaluddin Novel ‘Ayesha At Last’

• Smith, Power and Berry win Forward poetry prizes

• THE CHALLENGES OF CREATING A COVER FOR A FORGOTTEN MODERNIST CLASSIC

• Is young adult literature too dark?

• New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay

• Man Booker 2018: Daisy Johnson becomes youngest ever author shortlisted for prize

• OUP offers free dictionary access to UK state schools

• Pennsylvania to end prison book donations, forcing inmates onto pricey eBook platform

• Alberta book publishers to get $300,000 boost from province

• Digital scholarship rescues ethnographic cookbook from oblivion

• PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT THE “RISE” OF AFRICAN SCIENCE FICTION

• B&N Opens Prototype Store in Maryland

• OECD international survey of scientific authors

• Man Booker judges: 'submissions needed more editing'

• New chapter for Newtonville Books as it turns 20

• Sexy ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Costumes Just Hit The Internet, And This Is Your Reminder To Please Don’t

• GARRARD CONLEY AND SJ SINDU ON THE MAINSTREAMING OF QUEER IDENTITY

• The Oxford English Dictionary is opening its gates to teenage slang—via Twitter

• Arrested for fact-checking: Kazakh court fines Ukrainian journalist after police break up media workshop

• Audiobooks Are the New Ebooks, Except They Might Keep Growing

• Rebecca Rosenblum, Max Wallace nominated for $10K Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature

• Mukherjee wins Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize

• Chief Justice Maraga launches bench book for criminal cases

• $4.8 MILLION IN GRANTS GO TO "SAVE AMERICA'S TREASURES"

• Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps

• Tales of people forgotten by the ‘development’ narrative

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