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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.
A roundup of books on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda; Al Gore's e-book app; the best translated book award winners are announced; book gift ideas for Mother's Day; and other news.
The power of fiction in Libya; royal wedding poems; Californians love to read, according to a new survey; political controversy for Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru; and other news.
Harper Lee distances herself from a new book about her life; 40 percent of iPad owners haven't read a single e-book on the device; an uncensored version of The Picture of Dorian Gray finally sees publication; a New York City bookstore that stocks only one book; and other news.
James Franco is accepted to yet another graduate creative writing program; poet Dean Young gets a new heart; the Folger Shakespeare Library appoints a new director; a new James Bond book comes with a 9mm bullet; and other news.
The last typewriter factory closes its door; Penguin Group and Amazon develop new content Web sites; product placements in a self-published book; Chinese author Liao Yiwu is banned from traveling to the PEN World Voices Festival; and other news.
Pulitzer winner's advice rattles writers; Morrissey completes memoir; New York City libraries respond to online pornography; Detroit libraries face closure; and other news.
Plastic surgery to look like Shakespeare; HBO options Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Good Squad; a Spanish-language book fair in Los Angeles; book-scented perfume; and other news.
The Princeton Poetry Festival kicks off later this month; Amazon warms to e-book library lending; the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's mansion is demolished in real life on Long Island, New York; the future of the novel, again; and other news.
Normal Mailer's apartment is for sale in Brooklyn, New York; Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson faces a legal investigation in Montana; Amazon customers may face audit risk; finding the novel's way forward; and other news.
Greg Mortenson responds to the controversy; romance novellas to commemorate a royal wedding; Jennifer Egan and Kay Ryan pick up Pulitzer Prizes; and other news.
Greg Mortenson defends his best-selling Three Cups of Tea; a Facebook promotional campaign pushes book to the top of Amazon lists; Kjell Espmark, poet and Swedish Academy member, defends the Nobel Prize for Literature; and other news.
A restaurant with books for walls; e-book sales leap 200 percent in February; all modern languages may have originated in Southern Africa according to new research; America: Now and Here brings art to the people; and other news.
Autographing e-books; an imprisoned Iranian writer wins the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award; global publishing is worth about $130 billion; Salman Rushdie's new gig; and other news.
It's National Library Week; according to a new survey, 77 percent of Americans oppose censoring Mark Twain's famous novels; bitter Borders employees make hilarious signage; Brave New World tops the list of most challenged books in American libraries; and other news.
The flavor of revolution at the Tahrir Book Fair in Egypt; the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada is under fire from politicians; a book you can sleep inside; China's "most severe crackdown on freedom of expression in years"; and other news.
One of the world's oldest books turns up in Utah; Dzanc Books launches a program to reintroduce out-of-print titles as e-books; a collection of John Lennon's letters; what your favorite children's book says about you; and other news.
Bouncy optimism at the London Book Fair; proposing marriage in the acknowledgements section of a mystery novel; Penn State cuts its MFA program in creative writing; piecing together The Pale King; and other news.
The booksellers market in Baghdad thrives once again; publishers are deeply sceptical of Borders' restructuring plan; the Kansas State Library battles with OverDrive over e-books; the fifth annual Literary Orange Festival; and other news.
Virginia Quarterly Review garners six National Magazine Award nominations; the latest scholarship from the David Foster Wallace archive; Robert Frost's letters from England are donated to Plymouth State University; bookseller troubles in Australia; and other news.
