Here is the top literary news of the week:
- 55 Trans Creative Teams, One Comic – ‘We’re Still Here’ On Kickstarter, Raising $10,000 A Day So Far
- New Digital Book Accessibility Certification Program Announced
- Fourteen Lancashire libraries set to reopen
- Irina Ratushinskaya obituary
- TUMBLR: THE NEW COMMONPLACE BOOK
- When the Writing Mentor Becomes the Mentee
- HOW LITERATURE HELPED MY FATHER AND ME SURVIVE LIFE IN A CULT
- When It Comes to Historical Markers, Every Word Matters
- S&S 'expects to prevail' against $10m Yiannopoulos lawsuit
- Indie bookshops slam heavy discounting on Pullman
- The Market Theatre brokers an Exclusive Pan-African Partnership
- The Arabic Language in Israel: Official but Inferior
- QUIET RIOT: MANAGING VOLUME LEVELS IN A SCHOOL LIBRARY
- Gwyneth Paltrow on building a lifestyle media brand: ‘It has to mean something’
- An Indiana Public Library Recovers From Ransomware Attack
- Tampa store must sell 60,000 book overstock
- Library supply deals worth millions awarded
- Canada’s Qurtuba Publishing House: ‘Reclaiming the Muslim Narrative’
- CHOOSE A BETTER CHOSEN ONE
- RECORDING MY AUDIOBOOK BROUGHT ME CLOSER TO MY IMMIGRANT MOTHER
- Pearson sells slice of Penguin for $1bn
- Zadie Smith to write first historical novel
- Kansas state librarian to retire at end of month
- Mysterious Bookshop
- The Hidden Risks of Writing a Cookbook
- UK man returning from Syria arrested for possessing a partial copy of The Anarchist Cookbook
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: SOME FANS BELIEVE GEORGE R.R. MARTIN HAS SECRETLY FINISHED WINDS OF WINTER
- EU funds £2.5m literary projects in UK
- HOW DID INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES AVOID GOING EXTINCT?
- UK Market Forecast: “E-books Sales to Drop as Bookshelf Resurgence Sparks ‘Shelfie’ Craze”
- CCC Nuacht ‘considering position’ over Leo Sherlock apology
- How to Get Fresh Perspective on a Project You’re Sick Of
- Milo Yiannopoulos’s ‘Dangerous’ book sells 152 copies in the UK
- Debut collection Moon Juice wins CLiPPA award
- Tributes pour in for dissident writer Liu Xiaobo
- Baker-Polito Administration awards $67 Million in Construction Grants through MBLC
- Mapping Dante’s Inferno, One Circle of Hell at a Time
- CRIME AND THE CITY: A SLEEPY LITTLE MURDERTOWN CALLED REYKJAVIK
- Elif Shafak: ‘It is time we stopped denigrating the public intellectual’
- Activists are trying to open a D.C. bookstore in honor of a slain journalist
- SA’s young readers beat world’s best at Toronto final
- Smith's 'subtle and sly' tale wins Guardian BAME prize
- Russian Libraries Reportedly Forced to Remove Pushkin Books Donated by Soros
- Lavrov, Donbass and the Duties of Translation
- Big queues for fascinating world story told through 100 objects
- Juan Villoro: The writer who did not become a coward nor a cannibal
- WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR A WOMAN TO READ ALONE IN AMERICA?
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