Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Newspaper Apologises for Cartoon That Equated “Dreamers” With MS-13 Gang Members\
- King’s crowning glory
- Video Search: The Internet Archive’s Wonderful TV News Archive Adds New Search Features
- Karl Ove Knausgaard: ‘Contemporary fiction is overrated’
- 10 Amazing Harry Potter-Themed Little Free Libraries
- Comics Retailers Hope To Rebound in 2018
- 'Call Me by Your Name,' 'The Handmaid's Tale' Win USC Scripter Awards
- Waterstones still 'committed' to Oxfam following sex scandal
- Lucinda Williams, Singer and Prolific Songwriter, Is Writing a Memoir
- Kolman: 'publishers should shout more about innovation'
- A VISUAL TOUR OF 35 LITERARY BARS AND CAFÉS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
- Barnes and Noble is Sacking Customer Service and Digital Leads
- Sexual Harassment in the Children’s Book Industry
- Trump renews bid to eradicate arts and library funding
- ‘Somber, for sure’: Expectations of more consolidation hang over magazine conference
- UC Berkeley Library to cut student, faculty resources
- JUDY BLUME’S ADVICE FOR ASPIRING WRITERS
- NY Times Abruptly Fires Its New Nazi-Befriending Editorial Board Hire
- Thirteen Reasons Why author Asher expelled from group after misconduct claims
- ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Publications Moving to Open Access
- Tiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy May Star In DC's Mob Adaptation, The Kitchen
- ON THE VERY CONTEMPORARY ART OF FLASH FICTION
- 2018 Caldecott, Newberry Winners and More Announced
- Two British playwrights benefit from Audible's $5m fund
- The Top Books Read In 2017
- University of Minnesota and Michigan St. University Launch SCOTUS Notes, Crowdsourcing Project Will Transcribe Supreme Court Justices’ Handwritten Notes
- HOW MEDIEVAL STORYTELLERS SHAPE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ROMANCE
- A LOVE LETTER TO MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
- A college says it found an old clump of George Washington’s hair. Hooray!
- Rep. John Lewis will continue graphic novel autobiography with new Run trilogy
- “Thirteen Reasons Why” Author Jay Asher Was Removed From A Literary Organization After Sexual Harassment Allegations
- Evolving Travel market dips but category remains key for retailers
- TSU to break ground on new library
- WHY THE HARDLINERS OF THE WORLD FEAR THE WORD
- Left Bank Books' Cat in Residence, Spike, Disrupts Feminist Reading
- Maze Runner author James Dashner dropped by Random House in wake of misconduct allegations
- Sexual Harassment in the Children’s Book Industry
- ‘They Fear Pens, Not Guns': Turkish Journalists Sentenced to Life in Prison
- Viola Wang wins Walker illustration award
- Sahitya Akademi Award winner Ramanunni donates prize money to Junaid Khan's mother
- The Darfuri Asylum Seeker in Israel Who Takes Refuge in Writing
- C of I recreates historic book brigade, transports books to new library
- The latest mystery in publishing? That pulp is not dead.
- Appeals Court Decision is Good News for Authors
This week: an editorial cartoon has hit a nerve, comics shops are hoping for a rebound in 2018, Barnes and Noble cuts staff abruptly, the New York Times reverses course on a new hire, the Caldecott and Newberry awards were handed out, a lock of George Washington’s hair has been found in an uncatalogued book, and a popular author has been cut by his publisher. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
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