Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Louisiana’s Archives in ‘State of Emergency,’ Historians Say
- HC India to offer 'pawternity leave' to employees
- The Times of London sees success in an editions approach to digital publishing
- Three Tips on How Publishers Can Brand Authors in Our Media-Saturated Times
- SO… HOW DO YOU LIKE TO READ ON YOUR COMMUTES?
- School of hard knocks: the dark underside to boarding school books
- HarperCollins chooses its Indie winners
- Pics Or It Didn't Happen: reclaiming Instagram's censored art
- Radio Report: “Designing the Public Library of The Future”
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Casts “Accio Olivier Awards,” Summons a Record Nine Oliviers
- What Joan Didion’s new book, South and West, explains about her sensibility
- DON’T BE THAT PERSON: 5 ETIQUETTE TIPS FOR THE BOOKSTORE
- 2017 Pulitzer Prizes
- Book about politics and pop music wins Penderyn Music Book Prize
- The latest important new role at publishers: The influencer wrangler
- Missouri: “Disturbing Anti-Semitic Voicemail Left at Washington University in St. Louis Library”
- The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley
- LET’S TALK (IN LIBRARY CODE)!
- Top Ten Challenged Books of 2016
- Barnes and Noble Summer Reading Program for Kids
- Thinking outside the books – how to get ahead in publishing
- Fordham University Press & Fordham University Libraries Awarded NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Grant to Digitize American Philosophy Titles
- Unseen Sylvia Plath letters claim domestic abuse by Ted Hughes
- Zone of Strangeness: On John Cheever’s Subjective Suburbs
- DISCOVERING THE POWER OF STORYTELLING IN A TATTERED OLD PULP PAPERBACK
- Loida Garcia-Febo Wins 2018–2019 ALA Presidency
- Dawson Books strikes partnership with Kortext
- “Burlesque dance with a nerdy twist”? Sure!
- Matthew Desmond’s Evicted Just Won the Pulitzer for Nonfiction. It’s All Housing Advocates Can Talk About.
- BOOKSELLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: RADICAL WISDOM AT CITY LIGHTS
- 10 STORIES ABOUT THE LIBRARY RESTORING MY FAITH IN HUMANITY
- Eight for Eight: A Literary Reader for Passover
- *Margaret Atwood On ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: ‘I Made Nothing Up’
- UK Government considers intervening in Swindon and Lancashire library closures
- The Times of London is wooing subscribers via a Brexit Facebook group
- Digital Records: Report on Australian Government Progress Towards Digital Information Management Published
- Woman with Power Is Woman Unchecked: Reading Narratives of Indian Women
- DAVID VANN: “IF I MISS A SINGLE MORNING OF WRITING, IT CHANGES MY NOVEL”
- The fallen woman: prostitution in literature
- SEEING THE LIBRARY AS A GEOGRAPHER WOULD
- Digital media company RBmedia launches, acquires Audiobooks.com
- Katherena Vermette, Yasuko Thanh nominated for 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Creative industries tell UK government 'don't dismiss us'
- Bookseller Plans To Open A Bookstore In D.C. By And For People Of Color
- Russian News Outlet RBC Confirms Sale Amid Fears of Kremlin Censorship Crackdown
- Israeli author Assaf Gavron on the importance of airing Israel's dirty laundry abroad
- Gaza needs books
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