Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Happy Fourth of July - 25 Interesting Facts about American Literature
- CainePrize2016 | And the Winner is Lidudumalingani! | Caine Prize for African Writing
- Media outlook 'dismal' following Brexit, analysts warn
- Game Of Thrones Season 6 Soared Without Books As Source Material
- Wanted: children's books to counteract post-Brexit racism
- B is for Book is about children learning to read - and it'll fill you with joy
- Ali’s death offers a moment to consider sports writing
- Jenny Diski on the Bible's most dysfunctional family
- The Subtle Genius of Elena Ferrante’s Bad Book Covers
- Amazon reveals customers' 2016 book buying habits
- Judith Kerr wins BookTrust lifetime achievement award 2016
- The Magic of the Lord of the Rings Books
- Texas Town Fires—Then Rehires—Its Library Cat
- UK publishers hope to capitalize on Brexit by offering new print products
- Amateur Historian Digs up Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Press Pass From the Spanish Civil War
- Matthew Evans – 1941-2016
- Hoboken's Little City Books to Add Kids’ Store
- 12 Questions to Ask Your Character about the Setting She Is In
- Irish booksellers demand rethink on library tenders
- Thinking Fiction: The Subjectivity of Editing IV, Part II
- Winners - Branford Boase Award 2016
- Michel Faber: 'I would have been a different writer without my wife'
- For Publishing President Story Never Ends, Plot Just Thickens
- Time of opportunity
- Brilliant and Brainy Books to Take to the Beach This Summer
- Shelf life: How Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch helped Derek DeCloet get hooked on soccer
- Happy Fourth of July - 25 Interesting Facts about American Literature
- Wanted: children's books to counteract post-Brexit racism
- Amazon reveals customers' 2016 book buying habits
- Amateur Historian Digs up Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Press Pass From the Spanish Civil War
- Amazon’s Audible Goes Long on Short-Form Audio
- Hillary Clinton backs US copyright reform
- Ben Lerner Doesn’t Hate Poetry
- Understanding Arab Comics
- Harlequin Launches BookBreaks App for Serialized Stories
- Netherlands: Taylor and Francis Announces National Open Access Agreement with Dutch Universities
- The Writing on the Wall: Documenting Civil War History
- Carl Sandburg’s Chicago: Stormy, Husky, Brawling at 100
- Poets' tour: Je suis haggis, we're all Scottish now
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