Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Fort Worth Library Writes Off $11.5 Million in Unpaid Fines
- Phoenix Burton Barr Central Library Almost Ready To Reopen After Flood Damage
- Mayor’s initiatives to improve San Diego libraries move forward
- McHenry County libraries receive grants from Jesse White
- Ohioans Approve 100% of Public Library Levy Issues on Primary Ballot
- Fort Collins libraries prioritize security while remaining open to all
- Indie Bookstores Find New Love for Romance Books
- Announcing the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2018 shortlists
- Amazon Publishing launches non-fiction arm
- Governor Brown’s May Revise Provides Funding for Digital Preservation
- The 8 Best Curses In Literature
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN-FIGURE BOOK ADVANCES
- Hearst Magazines Digital Media is launching a 20-person data studio
- Petit's 'mythic' poetry wins £10k Ondaatje Prize
- Patrons cheer as Barbara Bush Library reopens its doors after being closed since Harvey
- Could This Be The Future Of Books?
- Why this Stephen King book is so difficult to find
- HOW TO TELL YOUR FAMILY THAT YOU’RE WRITING A MEMOIR
- 2018 British Book Awards Announced
- Tom Wolfe, Author of 'The Right Stuff' and 'Bonfire of the Vanities,' Dies at 88
- The Lexicon of Tom Wolfe
- Nancy Drew Gets the Intersectional, Queer Makeover We've Been Waiting For
- Papers of President Woodrow Wilson Now Online
- The borrowers: why Finland's cities are havens for library lovers
- Senate votes to save net neutrality rules
- Bath Spa launches world's first children's publishing MA
- Digital Collections: Hearst Museum of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) Opens Digital Portal to its Entire Collection
- ANNOUNCING THE 2018 O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES
- First Season of Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series to Center on a Young Aragorn
- Wodehouse prize for comic fiction withheld after judges fail to laugh
- Announcing the 2018 BTBA Finalists
- Former agent's 'dark' debut wins RNA new writer award
- Library’s $3.4M radio frequency technology proposal meets with opposition
- THE WOMAN BRINGING THE BRONX ITS FIRST BOOK FESTIVAL
- Could this small New Hampshire bookshop become the (non-evil) Amazon.com of rare books?
- The Munch Museum in Oslo publishes more than 7,600 drawings online for free
- Netizen Report: What do Iran, Pakistan and Russia have in common? They all ban Telegram.
- Gail Bowen among finalists for 2018 Arthur Ellis crime writing awards
- Kenyan writer Makena Onjerika on Caine Prize 2018 shortlist
- From colonialism to globalism
- WINTER IS FOR EPICS, SUMMER FOR BEACH PAGE-TURNERS. HOW TO READ IN THE SPRING
- James Patterson Opens Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program for 2018
- Are ebooks dying or thriving? The answer is yes
- Researchers Uncover Two Hidden Pages in Anne Frank’s Diary
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