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The PEN World Voices Festival appoints a new director; Stevie Wonder lobbies the United Nations on behalf of blind readers; Banned Books Week kicks off on Saturday; a controversy over present tense novels; and other news.
Zadie Smith becomes a columnist for Harper's; Donald Rumsfeld is set to publish a memoir; a poetry salon thrives in Damascus, Syria; a Texas bookstore installs an electric car charging station; and other news.
Virgin America to offer e-books on flights; the first bookless library; Paradise Lost is set for a 3D film adaptation; owning a bookstore in Baghdad, Iraq; and other news.
Hanif Kureishi wins the PEN/Pinter award; HarperCollins lands the rights to all things Agatha Christie; an unpublished Ted Hughes poem is discovered among his letters; a rare autographed copy of Catcher in the Rye up for auction may not be authentic; and other news.
Susan Lehman is appointed publisher of Twelve; Tom Wolfe will be awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters; love letters from Oscar Wilde; CityLit Project takes up residence at the University of Baltimore; and other news.
New Ted Hughes letters reveal his strong reaction to American consumerism; the jacket art for David Foster Wallace's forthcoming posthumous novel; an author's pushcart tour of the Northeast; the blurring line between books and the Internet; and other news.
Agent Nathan Bransford of Curtis Brown, Ltd., in San Francisco talks about what he looks for in a pitch.
The Vatican Library reopens; Vietnam's thriving second-hand bookstore culture; the David Foster Wallace archive opens in Texas; the e-reader battles get a bit more direct; and other news.
Novelist and, as of this month, memoirist Darin Strauss reveals the three books he'd want to read if he was marooned on a desert island.
The Brooklyn Book Festival brought a crowd despite the rains; a lost poem by Sir Walter Scott is discovered; Taylor Mali's "What Teachers Make" is plagiarized again; Target stores may soon sell the iPad; and other news.
