Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Creative Industries Federation warns on education 'threat'
- The Power and Limits of Curation
- Elena Ferrante Translator Ann Goldstein Comments on the Author’s ‘Totally Unnecessary’ Outing
- COMPARING TRUMP’S REMARKS TO 50 SHADES IS SEXIST AND INDEFENSIBLE
- How Utopia Shaped the World
- HC launches 'publisher agnostic' online events platform
- Government to probe 'devastating' Lancashire library closures
- 2016 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award announced – a second win for Athol Williams
- HOW BAD WRITING DESTROYED THE WORLD
- Report: “France Adds Source Code to List of Documents Covered by Freedom of Information Laws”
- London's top haunts for book lovers
- Study shows books can bring Republicans and Democrats together
- Authors Guild Opens Membership to New and Unpublished Writers
- 2016 South African Literary Awards nominees revealed
- Viet Thanh Nguyen wins Dayton peace prize for The Sympathizer
- The Policy Landscape for Digital Libraries in Canada Discussed in New Report
- 10 BOOKS THAT DON’T EXIST, BUT SHOULD
- Nobel prize in literature won by Bob Dylan – as it happened
- Writing for an Audience of One
- The Romance Isn’t Dead (Or, Playing the Shakespearean Video Game)
- Adichie Just Gave Us the Best 9000 Words Ever Written on Feminism in African Literature
- The poaching game
- NetGalley Acquires Bookish.com
- UC Davis: University Library of 21st Century Visioning Process Moves Forward With Workshops and Online Survey
- A New Article by Lorcan Dempsey: “Library Collections in the Life Of The User: Two Directions”
- Cylo Launches Allexis ePublishing Platform
- Exclusive Books mourns loss of Lauren Watson
- INTERVIEW WITH A GATEKEEPER: ALGONQUIN’S ELISABETH SCHARLATT
- 11 Things Booksellers Would Like You To Know
- J.K. Rowling Announces Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Is Just the First of Five Movies
- Bangladeshi publisher Chowdhury shares PEN Pinter Prize with Atwood
- YES, BOB DYLAN REALLY DID WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
- When Librarians Are Silenced
- Inkitt Posts Author Contract Online in Act of Transparency
- THE LARGEST LIBRARY IN THE WORLD AND MORE IN CRITICAL LINKING
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