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The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs gets another obscenity trial; a Tower of Babel made of books in Argentina; a record label for poets; what your literary tote bag says about you; and other news.
A library managed by robotic systems; a musical stage comedy set in an indie bookstore; mermaids succeed vampires as the zeitgeist; the New York Public Library gives away twenty-five-thousand paperback books; and other news.
A possible Borders bidder; Newt Gingrich's 156 Amazon book reviews; unpublished Anthony Burgess stories discovered; a fourth author joins the Kindle million club; and other news.
Joyce Carol Oates responds to her critics; Chinese poet Liao Yiwu is banned from travel again; Amazon may make billions off the Kindle this year; Star Wars e-books; and other news.
Congressperson Matt Dean apologizes to Neil Gaiman; the state of digital publishing in sub-Saharan Africa; Target mails "Haiku-pons"; poet Javier Sicilia fights drug-related violence in Mexico after the death of his son; and other news.
Publishers sell books and booksellers publish; filmmaker Ethan Coen is set to publish a second book of poems; a host of bin Laden books are slated for release, starting today; self-publishing site Poetry.com is shut down after many years; and other news.
Poetry has its night at the White House; the Windy City's slam scene takes the big screen; Gone With the Wind celebrates seventy-five years; and other news.
Borders keeps up the fight to emerge from bankruptcy; Amazon pushes further into publishing with a romance imprint; the National Book Foundation's Innovations in Reading Prize winners; a prequel to The Godfather; and other news.
The ABA elects a new president; a royal wedding book is published in seventy-two hours; a book of short stories based on video game characters; Australian women writers fight sexism by developing a new literary prize; and other news.
Salman Rushdie weighs in on Pakistan; Alabama libraries suffer major damage in the recent tornadoes; Bui Chat is arrested in Vietnam after winning the International Freedom to Publish Prize; Argentina considers a writers' pension plan; and other news.
