Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:
A private company in Maryland is now running sixty-three individual library branches "in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country's fifth-largest library system." (New York Times)
In honor of Banned Books Week, the Guardian takes a look at the ten most frequently challenged books in U.S. libraries along with the "reasons given for their exclusion."
Victorian novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell "took her place alongside the literary greats in Westminster Abbey" on Saturday when a memorial window was dedicated in her honor in Poets' Corner. (Independent)
Scrabble is the first paid app for the Kindle. (Wired)
The legendary Strand Book Store in New York City is now selling candy (in addition to books). (New York Daily News)
The Nebraska Book Company was named the Nebraska Retail Federation's Retailer of the Year at an event Friday night. (Lincoln Journal Star)
HarperCollins announced plans to start a new conservative imprint called Broadside Books headed up by Adam Bellow, son of the novelist Saul Bellow. (New York Times)
Here are the top ten library books borrowed in the city of Brisbane, Australia, in the last two years. (Sydney Morning Herald)
