Here is the top literary news of the week:
- A New “Wikileaks for Religion” Publishes Its First Trove of Documents
- Ahlberg pens publisher's 'dream book'
- Governor Brown’s Budget Proposal Provides $9.5 Million for Public Libraries
- Azerbaijan National Library and UCLA Library Sign Memorandum of Understanding
- Turn a Harry Potter Movie Marathon into an At-Home Workout with These Wizard-Inspired Moves
- Sam Rockwell Drops F-Bomb on SNL: Nation Mourns, Vows to Rebuild
- Why We Shouldn’t Shield Children From Darkness
- Holt Ships 700K Copies of ‘Fire and Fury’
- CLPE appeals for donations to create a Literacy Library
- Research Article: “The Secret Lives of Ebooks: A Paratextual Analysis Illuminates a Veil of Usage Statistics”
- Jeff Bezos, Mr. Amazon, Steps Out
- Stephen King's PEN award is no occasion for horror
- THE HALF-WILD MUSE: ON WRITERS AND THEIR CATS
- South Korean universities reach agreement with Elsevier after long standoff
- Vuong scoops £25k T S Eliot Prize
- The Handmaid's Tale: Here's your haunting first look at season 2
- Apple News shows promise delivering traffic but won’t make up for Facebook shortfalls
- On Refuge
- Garbage collectors open library with abandoned books
- Amazon US to axe 58 jobs from Createspace
- PUBLIC LIBRARIES REACH 225 MILLION DIGITAL CHECKOUTS IN RECORD-BREAKING 2017
- ‘One Million Moms’ Is Furious That Scholastic Is Selling Books About Transgender Kids
- Open Access: Max Planck Society/Digital Library Announces Financial Support For SciPost
- Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' to Become TV Series
- In The Category Of 'Fake News,' The Award Winner Is...
- First edition Harry Potter stolen in Norfolk
- Stephen King ‘horrified’ by loss of his manuscripts in bookstore flooding
- There is No Single Voice of America
- Exactly what gets a book banned from prisons, in one US state’s spreadsheet
- Put the kettle on: does a cuppa beat writer’s block?
- Daunt confident of Waterstones sale after pre-tax profit jump
- Four Organizations Release New Version of “Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
- From Helping Shut-Ins to Sisterly Advice, Mail-Order Magazines Did More Than Just Sell Things
- I AM DIFFERENT NOW FROM THE PERSON I WROTE IN MY MEMOIR
- Schools around the world are now teaching kids to spot fake news
- Philippine Authorities Order Shutdown of Rappler News Site, Bringing a Blow to Press Freedom
- Deepak Unnikrishnan bags ‘The Hindu Prize 2017’ for ‘Temporary People’
- Inaugural First Translation Prize shortlist revealed
- Russia Calls BuzzFeed A ‘Tool of U.S. Intelligence’ After Bank Leaks
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