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Globe Pequot Fires 25, Harper Lee Criticizes Memoir, and More

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7.15.14

A successful Chicago Independent Bookstore Day; the conflict over North Carolina’s new poet laureate; David Mitchell’s new story on Twitter; and other news.

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fiction | experimental | writers rights | bookselling | short stories | self-publishing | social media

British Authors in Poverty, Scarlett Johansson Wins Novel Lawsuit, and More

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Staff

7.8.14

First edition of Das Kapital sells for $40,000; Costco pulls book by conservative author; Mary Dougherty named director of University of Massachusetts Press; and other news.

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fiction | film | bookselling | international | legal matters | international authors | adaptations | literary criticism | e-books

80,000 Illegal Books Seized in Uganda, Colum McCann Discusses Attack, and More

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Staff

7.7.14

Kensington Publishing expands agreement with Penguin Random House; Book Culture rehires four fired managers; Brazenhead Books to close its doors; and other news.

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poetry | fiction | bookselling | international | legal matters | independent/small presses | interviews | international authors | bookstores

Lisa Lucas Named Guernica Publisher, Warner Bros. Seeks Lawsuit Dismissal, and More

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Staff

7.1.14

Booksellers launch drive for immigrant children; Middle Eastern entrepreneur hawks banned books; student discovers lost photograph of Alfred Lord Tennyson; and other news.

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fiction | film | online magazines | bookselling | international | legal matters | African American | international authors | poets laureate | adaptations | novel

Wallace Stevens’s Home for Sale, Shelf Awareness Turns Nine, and More

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Staff

6.30.14

Book Culture owners respond to uproar over firings; prolific polyglots; authors get caught up in the drama of the World Cup; and other news.

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poetry | bookselling | legal matters | autobiography | international authors | literacy | social media

France's Anti-Amazon Law, Raymond Chandler’s Hollywood Star, and More

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Staff

6.27.14

Book sales down slightly in 2013; a 1996 radio interview with David Foster Wallace; Judy Blume’s novel for adults; and other news.

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fiction | bookselling | international | genre fiction | radio | Amazon | cross-genre

Barnes & Noble Splits From Nook, Simon & Schuster Opens E-book Lending to all Libraries, and More

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Staff

6.26.14

Walt Whitman first edition sells for record amount; in defense of attractive writers; portraits of Kurt Vonnegut; and other news.

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fiction | film | feminist | bookselling | international | young adult | adaptations | historical fiction | e-books

Hachette and Ingram Buy Perseus, Pediatricians Recommend Reading to Children, and More

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Staff

6.25.14

New fairy tales discovered in Germany; Lambda Literary awarded $10,000; Patti Smith recites poetry; and other news.

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poetry | festivals | bookselling | international | libraries | grants | Amazon | LGBT | avant-garde

The Brains of Creative Writers, Writer's Digest Ends Partnership with Author Solutions, and More

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Staff

6.24.14

Rutgers appoints poet A. Van Jordan to faculty; BookStats discontinues services; NYPL to potentially restructure its board; and other news.

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poetry | bookselling | international | libraries | African American | self-publishing | subsidy/vanity publishing | Christian

Three Arrested in Spain for Illegal Book Scanning, Newly Discovered P. L. Travers Story, and More

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Staff

6.23.14

A Hachette negotiator speaks out; Jennifer Weiner’s take on smiling authors; Gordon Lish at eighty; and other news.

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fiction | bookselling | international | legal matters | creative nonfiction | Amazon | essays | scams

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