Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Cressida Cowell is BookTrust's new Writer in Residence
- Libraries to avoid cuts to opening hours with extra £225k funding
- The Outrun by Amy Liptrot wins The Wainwright Golden Beer Prize 2016
- Bengaluru Poetry Festival: Poetry books are not always financially viable, say publishers
- Hay Festival seeks new sponsorship
- HOW TO END A MEMOIR WITHOUT GETTING MARRIED
- Retail sales up despite Brexit
- The Merits of Reading Real Books to Your Children
- Attention 'Game of Thrones' fans: George R.R. Martin has another TV project in the works
- Richard King: 'Record shops have undergone a form of gentrification'
- Nearly 400,000 Records From “Recollection Wisconsin” Now Accessible Through DPLA
- Celebrate National Book Lovers Day With These Reading-Inspired Activities
- Hodder builds on Broadway success with The Hamilton Affair
- Hybrid writers get the best of both worlds
- New Award To Recognise Significant Contribution To Scottish Children's Literature
- Me Too, I Say, Me Too: Nicole Dennis-Benn on “Here Comes the Sun”
- The horror of female adolescence – and how to write about it
- The British Library to Display J.K. Rowling’s Personal ‘Harry Potter’ Archive
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child script sells 850,000 copies in first week
- The Data Clearly Show That the Media Are Jerks for Singularizing Latinate Words
- EIBF 'strongly condemns' attack on Turkish bookshop
- London Bookstores Go Rogue as No Wi-Fi Zones
- The Global Golden Age for Independent Publishers Has Begun
- How many books get sold in SA every year?
- Harvard Law School Library Project to Provide Free Online Access to U.S. State, Federal Court Decisions Named “Caselaw Access Project”
- HOW TO SURVIVE AS AN AMERICAN WRITER IN BULGARIA
- How To Get Your Book Turned Into A Movie
- Half Price Books got bilked for $1M in 7-year toner scam, suit says
- BA to launch Bookshop Day
- New $50k Pen Award To Honor International Writer In The Spirit Of Nabokov
- Sales of Syrian culture anthology soar after woman held for reading it on plane
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle: America's queen of weird hits the screen
- EC launches e-book VAT consultation
- NEW ADAPTATION OF THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH COMING
- Librarians Have an Olympics, Too
- A Nancy Drew Ghostwriter on the Art of Being “Carolyn Keene” and the Evolution of Nancy Drew in a More Feminist Age
- The Harry Potter Typo That Could Be Worth £20,000
- 3 Facebook Changes You Need to Know About
- World Library and Information Congress 2016 opens in Columbus, Ohio
- Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien on fictionalizing his war stories
- Report Finds Increased Antitrust Oversight Needed to Protect Small Business
- Search For Obama Library Director To Begin Soon, Three Archivists Already Hired
- Why George Orwell statue highlights London’s neglect of its novelists
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