Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Open Access negotiators prepare for a future without publishers
- Frank Miller: 'I wasn't thinking clearly when I said those things'
- Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ Tells the Story of the Slave Trade’s Last Survivor
- A 5-year-old boy sells lemonade to help fund York County Libraries after budget cuts
- The Inevitable Clash Between Seattle and Amazon Has Begun
- NORTHEASTERN RECEIVES MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT TO LAUNCH NEW CENTER FOR STUDY OF BOSTON
- De Marque Adds Libranda to Its Distribution Business
- Artistic expression is increasingly being stifled and censored across East Africa
- FOR LIBRARIES, THE “CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT” MIGHT BE WRONG
- The New York Times brings unified ad, editorial approach to its new article page
- Daily Mail and PRH launch third £20k writers' competition
- Emma Watson's New Book Club Picks Are The 'The Hate U Give' By Angie Thomas And 'Radium Girls' By Kate Moore
- New Article: “Empowerment, Experimentation, Engagement: Embracing Partnership Models in Libraries”
- RUMAAN ALAM: “WRITER’S BLOCK IS A FICTION”
- A Fan’s Notes
- Ian McEwan reveals a rather absurd incident that only an author of his stature could experience
- Lonely Planet 'up for sale' as Houghton departs
- Tremlett wins £5k historical biography prize
- Parking fees jacked up as jobs slashed from archives, library
- THE WHO WAS? SHOW IS COMING TO NETFLIX THIS MONTH
- God help us if publishers become “the morals police”
- Romance Authors Are In A Spin After The Word ‘Cocky’ Is Trademarked
- Jojo Moyes steps in to save Quick Reads from closure
- Springer Nature cancels Frankfurt stock market listing
- Starz Orders two more seasons of Outlander
- Hurley and McInerney revealed as joint winners of Encore Award
- UC San Diego to salvage the 'lost' audio recordings of polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk
- Vermont Life magazine to cease printing after 72 years
- Teacher feedback prompts Authorfy shift
- The Shirley Jackson Award Celebrates Darkly Fantastic Literature
- THE BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL IN FIVE ACTS
- This 130-Year-Old Dutch Church Gets a New Life as a Library
- Why storytelling will never be passé: on the trend of growing online readership
- ‘Peppa Pig’ has gotten too naughty for China's censors
- Applebaum wins Duff Cooper Prize for a second time
- Gerard Genette, the father of narratology, died
- Downtown's Reading Park will bring the library outside
- After 30 Years, Krakow’s Jewish Culture Festival Finally Becomes, Well, Jewish
- The Authors Guild Foundation to Receive Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
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