This week: what killed Jane Austen?, RIP founder of New York Review of Books, what New Yorkers will be reading, authors respond to NEA cuts, checking out Amazon’s neighborhood bookstore, looking toward the Fall for the Book, and religious publishers filling the religious gap.  All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.

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