Here is the top literary news of the week.
- 'People are hungry for real bookstores': Judy Blume on why US indie booksellers are thriving
- SIX QUESTIONS FOR BECKY FINCHAM
- JK Rowling had a great response to being asked how she balanced writing and motherhood
- Is There a Good Way to Translate Chinese Poetry?
- Books to get children through sports day
- National Archives of Australia Staff off to Cuba to Restore Historic Documents”
- Scientists Are Punnier Than You Think
- Simon Cowell wants to write a children's book
- Ashes of novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez return to Colombia
- Ta-Nehisi Coates decides not to move to Brooklyn
- Ed Riche on political correctness and turning into a deer
- Library of Congress Releases Page For the Public to Comment on Proposed “Ilegal Aliens” Subject Heading Cancellation and Replacement, Congressmen object
- Zero K and making sense of 'late period' Don DeLillo
- Big Publishing is Not as Big Anymore
- In search of a publisher
- Read the winning story in our Jungle Book competition for children
- Hay Festival 2016: Booker Prize-winner Marlon James on why he had to leave Jamaica or die
- Rosario Castellanos was one of Mexico’s greatest poets. Read some of her work.
- Boston Public Library Selects San Jose City Librarian Jill Bourne as New President
- Stephen King, Cheryl Strayed Sign Open Letter Condemning Donald Trump
- How have poets used list-making? Simon Ermitage explores.
- Daughter of missing HK bookseller makes plea for US assistance
- Amazon.com’s ComiXology (Digital Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga) Launches “All You Read” Subscription Service, $5.99/Month
- Would Enid Blyton 'delight' in new Famous Five parodies? Will we?
- EC's new geo-blocking rules won't apply to e-books
- Macmillan buys e-publishing platform Pronoun (nee Vook)
- Macmillan Publishers weighs leaving Flatiron Building for a new HQ
- CRE players crave Amazon action
- 'It needs more public-spirited pigs': TS Eliot's rejection of Orwell's Animal Farm
- Hip-hop-loving Chinese millennials are no longer reading magazines, they’re reading Marx
- Apple in Bank Holiday giveaway for new authors
- 11 More Pop Culture Coloring Books
- THE FRENCH COUNTERSTRIKE AGAINST WORK E-MAIL
- 2016 National Book Festival Poster Takes Viewers on ‘Journey to the Unknown’
- What the Dickens? On First Seeing Great Expectations in Mrs. Dalloway
- Nathaniel Philbrick: By the Book
- A Nasty Tale of Redemption: A Conversation With Susan Rukeyser
- Kris Bertin on watching bar patrons make bad decisions
- Alaska: Vandalism at Kenai Community Library Causes Thousands of Dollars in Damage
- THE RE(A)D PLANET: 10 SHORT STORIES ABOUT MARS
- EU Ministers Approve Proposals to Make All European Scientific Articles Freely Accessible by 2020
- Overdrive Introduces Summer Reading Program for Schools
- The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers open applications
- Do You Download Audiobooks? Congratulations, You’re Keeping Publishing Afloat
- Are self-published e-books a threat to traditional publishers?
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