Barnes & Noble Splits From Nook, Simon & Schuster Opens E-book Lending to all Libraries, and More
Walt Whitman first edition sells for record amount; in defense of attractive writers; portraits of Kurt Vonnegut; and other news.
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Author to Repay $22.5 Million for Falsified Memoir, Italian Inmates Cut Prison Time Through Reading, and More
Tennessee school district bans Mark Haddon novel; a Mother’s Day tribute to poet Ruth Stone; the last feminist bookstores in North America; and other news.
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A Profile of Roxane Gay
In her new novel, An Untamed State; her essay collection, Bad Feminist, forthcoming in August; and her memoir, Hunger, slated for publication in 2016, Roxane Gay offers a joyous, complicated, even radically nuanced view of women.
Harper Lee Permits To Kill a Mockingbird E-book, the Search for Miguel de Cervantes, and More
Bear Grylls to pen thrillers; “ambush poetry” in Las Vegas; the trouble with labeling women’s writing; and other news.
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Hanif Kureishi Declares Writing Classes Worthless, the Debate Over Audiobooks, and More
Cheryl Strayed visits Wisconsin; Melville House wonders if the author is dead; books to help with midlife crises; and other news.
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2013 VIDA Count Released; Amtrak Launches Residency Program; and More
Wikipedia will be published as a volume of books; an investment firm has offered to buy 51 percent of Barnes & Noble; Lorrie Moore profiled in the Millions; and other news.
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Sony Reader Ends North American Business, Laura Miller on Literary Elitism, and More
Former U. S. poet laureate Maxine Kumin died yesterday at age eighty-eight; Penguin Random House will close two Penguin warehouses as it restructures; Alexander Chee examines the nature of pervasive Internet outrage; and other news.
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Natasha Trethewey on the State of Poetry, New Jane Austen Fragment, and More
Philip Roth restated that he is finished with the writing of novels; a new fragment of Jane Austen’s handwriting has been found; Wired reports the cost of the Amazon Prime program will increase significantly; and other news.
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#ReadWomen2014, Laura Miller on Classic Novels, and More
In response to anti-gay legislation in Nigeria, celebrated Kenyan memoirist Binyavanga Wainaina announced he is gay; Amazon will offer retail stores a Kindle-based checkout system; Amanda Bullock lists twenty-nine books every person should read before marrying; and other news.
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Most Anticipated Books of 2014, Rebecca Mead Profiles Jennifer Weiner, and More
The Millions previews the most anticipated books of 2014; Roxane Gay mines the troubling notion that female protagonists must be likable; Smashwords founder Mark Coker reported that the self-published e-book distributor added around 25,000 authors last year; and other news.
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