Here is the top literary news from this week:
- Free-speech group slams Portland schools’ ban on books that question climate change
- Book vending machines installed in Singapore
- James Patterson mostly doesn’t write his books. And his new readers mostly don’t read.
- Stop going back to the farm: Celebrating the strong voices trying to pull South African fiction out of its self-indulgent swamp
- HarperCollins Launches Facebook Live Daily Programming
- U.S. Copyright Office Publishes “Draft Revision of the Library and Archives Exceptions in U.S. Copyright Law” (Section 108)
- Fanfiction isn't about muting the original stories. It's about heightening them.
- Let’s Take ‘Search Inside the Book’ to a Whole New Level
- Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s Book Review Policy Is Destroying Indie Authors’ Ability to Sell Books
- Hudson to become DK c.e.o
- New Data: “The Troubled Academic Job Market for Humanities” (U.S.)
- What does Shakespeare mean to you? Nadia Davids looks at The Bard’s role in post-apartheid South Africa
- Context, nuance, sensitivity… useless words! An ad campaign doesn’t need them
- Is the future going out of print? Why we’re confident books will survive the digital age
- 28th Annual Lammy Award Winners Announced
- A WILDLY INVENTIVE FANTASY SERIES THAT BEGAN ON THE WEB AND BECAME A BEST-SELLER
- UK scientists positively date the oldest handwritten document in Britain
- Russian Newspapers Warn Readers of 'Lies' on State Channel NTV
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to Consider Librarian of Congress Nomination This Thursday
- A List Too Far
- William Hill Sports Award founder Gaustad dies
- Robyn Sisman dies
- McInerney's 'brave' debut wins Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
- Book Covers See Yellow to Attract Online Shoppers
- John Cage’s Intensely Beautiful Love Letters to Merce Cunningham
- Why Outlander’s Claire Suffers From PTSD on the Show, but Not in the Books
- Edinburgh international book festival reveals 'bold, creative' lineup
- Stealing Books in the Age of Self-Publishing
- ‘Crime novels are so intricate’
- Does Literary Criticism Have a Grade Inflation Problem?
- Key committee recommends Dr. Carla Hayden for Senate confirmation as nation’s Librarian of Congress
- Amazon has had a very busy couple of days
- Is It Harder to Be Transported By a Book As You Get Older?
- The parallax view
- The internet and coffee shops are no replacement for libraries
- Newspaper in Russia's Pskov Warned by Media Watchdog
- Grammatical malpractice
- GOP Insists Library of Congress Retain ‘Illegal Aliens’
- Bill O'Reilly Says That The NY Times Best Seller List Is Biased Because His Book Isn't Number One
- Carol Ann Duffy introduces poems for our love of bookshops
- Will Amazon Kindle Unlimited Royalties Reduce To Near Nothing?
- Everybody Wants a Piece of Milton
- Why Are Female Friendships Written So Hot and Bothered While Male Friendships = Bromance?
- London Public Library's Book A Librarian program helps Londoners get access to deep databases, could expand
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Art
- Science Says If You Read Books You’ll Earn More Money
- Why Parents Should Take Their Children to Literary Readings
- The Myth About Print Coming Back and Bookstores on the Rise
- The 2016 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners Announced
- What My Parents Really Think About My Memoir of Alcoholism
- Loving to Hate the Mainstream Media
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