Newslist for the literary news in the week ending March 20th
Read MoreMarch 20, 2016
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March 13, 2016
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Keith is sick this week so there will be no recorded podcast available. Please enjoy this news list nonetheless.
Here is the news for the week:
- Goodnight and good Nook: farewell to a beloved e-reader
- The 2016 finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award
- The loneliness of the working-class writer
- Book club helps immigrant mothers find joy in reading and support their kids' education
- Is the ‘Dark Tower’ Movie a Bad Idea? Why Sony’s Adaptation Is Worrying Diehard Fans
- American Psycho 25 years later: Looking back on its unbelievable publishing story
- Short story collection smuggled out of North Korea to be published in English
- The Society of Authors seeks new law to protect authors
- NEH Puts Out Call For Projects That “Document Or Digitally Re-Create Imperiled Or Destroyed Cultural Materials”
- Most literate nation in the world? Not the U.S., new ranking says.
- Artist Transforms Old Books Into Miniature Landscapes
- PRH and Hachette lead BBIA nods
- Amazon goes full Orwell
- Australia: “Trove Online Database’s Future in Doubt Due to National Library Funding Cuts”
- Down the Rabbit Hole: Alice in Wonderland’s Influence on Video Games
- Topography of a novel: Julia Pierpont on how she wrote Among the Ten Thousand Things
- Mass Market Edition of To Kill a Mockingbird will no longer be published
- What Mainstream Media Can Learn From the Mail Online. Seriously!
- What is the point of critics?
- Poet Monica McClure Boldly Confronts The Problem With How We Discuss Abortion
- Orion unveils new imprint Trapeze
- The Best Picture Books Published in 2015
- Bookslut says goodbye
- Writivism launches 2 new non-fiction awards for African writers resident in Ghana
- Barnes & Noble’s New CDO: ‘We Must Win the Mobile Experience’
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March 6, 2016
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This week, Keith is feeling ill so there is no recorded podcast, enjoy the news list in the meantime and he'll be back next week.
Read MoreFebruary 28, 2016
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This week: President Obama has nominated a new Librarian of Congress, Indie Bookshops are thriving, Umberto Eco’s new book is coming early, George RR Martin has got a surprise for his readers, and the Academy Awards were handed out. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, Literally This Week.
Read MoreFebruary 21, 2016
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This week: is Amazon up to no good, the U.S. government is looking into it, libraries are under threat in the UK, two Tolkien poems have been found, privilege in publishing is in check, an author speaks out about their pulled book, and the world said goodbye to two literary giants. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, Literally This Week.
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2016
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This week: the UK’s National Libraries Day was a success, Harper Lee is going to Broadway, Neil Gaiman is coming to Sky Television, is France really reading eBooks?, Bookstore sales are up, and there’s a new Harry Potter book coming this summer. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, Literally This Week.
Read MoreFebruary 8, 2016
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This week: Awards, awards, and more awards, Finnegan’s wake gets a musical accompaniement, Barnes and Noble is helping put your kids in a story, Dubai is building a super library, Joan Didion rocks, Amazon might be opening more bookstores, and the favorite Harry Potter spell was announced. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, Literally This Week
Read MoreFebruary 1, 2016
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This week, Is the Oxford English Dictionary being sexist, The Times of London and Wall Street Journal are strengthening their paywalls, J.K. Rowling has won the PEN Award, there’s a ‘new’ book coming from Beatrix Potter, and a literary magazine has launched just for users of the deep web. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, Literally This Week.
Read MoreJanuary 25, 2016
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This week, a children’s book has Scholastic in hot water at Mount Vernon, the Oxford Literary Festival is caving to Phillip Pullman’s demands, Kevin Spacey will be in a J.D. Salinger biopic, Caitlyn Jenner is writing a memoir, and Millennials can’t spell. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, Literally This Week.
Read MoreJanuary 18, 2016
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This week, the American Library Association announced its awards, several publishers have a lot of explaining to do, Philip Pullman is causing a fuss, and we are reminded to save the Indies and the Libraries, and even Used Book stores. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, Literally This Week.
Read MoreJanuary 11, 2016
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This week, the Golden Globes have been announced, as well as the Costa Book Awards, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Non-Fiction. International Book Giving Day has a poster, War and Peace is soon coming to your TV screen, and Philip Pullman adds to the trouble for big publishers. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, Literally This Week.
Read MoreJanuary 4, 2016
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The first full episode of Literally This Week checks out news from across the literary world.
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