Here is the top literary news of the week:
- PA plans to recruit 10,000 'Reading Ambassadors'
- Inside the mind of Frank Cottrell Boyce via his scrapbook – in pictures
- Report: “With Its First Mobile Library, Uganda Starts to Build a Reading Culture”
- Eat, Pray, Love 10 years on: Six other bestselling tales of self-discovery
- The Disappearing Post Offices of the Rural South
- Shareable content at heart of Springer Nature thinking
- Is Sh-t Show a German Calque? The OED Needs Your Help!
- Literary Hill Bookfest announces author list
- Announcing the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Winner
- Gosh Comics Plans For Free Comic Book Day 2016 Are Utterly Sensational
- James Thurber's 'Mitty-esque' western published for the first time
- Meg Rosoff wins Astrid Lindgren Award
- Why the Washington Post is building chatbots to deliver the news
- Voting open for 20th annual Webby awards
- Facebook: The World’s Largest Bookstore?
- Amazon to Release New Kindle With Rechargeable Protective Case
- Arlington Seeks First-Ever Poet Laureate
- Merle Haggard: 'Sometimes I wish I hadn’t written Okie from Muskogee'
- EU Action Plan Calls For Full Open Access For All Publicly Funded Scientific Publications, Data By 2020
- Violette Leduc: the great French feminist writer we need to remember
- And the Golden Whisk Goes to...
- French publisher named in Panama Papers
- Weʼre raising £600 to Make up for the money that was stolen from the Big Green Bookshop on 6 April.
- James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room voted best erotic passage
- Uh-oh, some publishers see a drop in Facebook traffic
- A Few Details About Those Sandman Spinoff Books Coming From DC Vertigo – And The Gossip Behind Them
- Survey Shows Fewer Americans Are Visiting Libraries
- The Oldest Qur’an Manuscript in British Library Collection Digitized and Now Online
- Authors Pen Letter of Support to NC Youth
- Rare Copy of Shakespeare's First Folio Discovered in Scottish House
- Book in a Box: A Different Way to Diversify Books
- Celebrate National Library Week 2016 (April 10-16) with the theme "Libraries Transform"
- Phil Hall on literary house parties and his fantasy job
- 'Freedom, or their idea of it': does America need the existentialists?
- EC commits to lowering e-book VAT
- THE GRUMPY LIBRARIAN: WHEN YOU GET THROWN OUT OF BOOK CLUB
- 50 Artists To Draw X-O Manowar As Title Ends – The Valiant ECCC Panel
- ON GETTING RID OF BOOKS
- Language Leakage: An Interview with Sarah Thomason
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