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Banned books return to shelves in Tunisia and Egypt; Random House switches to the agency model; Penguin reports a 26 percent operating profit for 2010; librarians join the ongoing protests in Madison, Wisconsin; and other news.
The Motorola Xoom takes on the iPad; a hundred-year-old book club in Illinois; Art Spiegelman's favorite books at the Strand Book Store in New York City; selling books in a clothing store; and other news.
Twelve promising British first-time novelists; bibliotherapy for couples; the end of African American literature; creating erasure poetry from hate speech; and other news.
The PEN World Voices Festival lineup is announced; World Book Night takes place in Trafalgar Square in London on March 4; the Tahrir Book Fair springs up in place of the canceled Cairo International Book Fair in Egypt; Libyan poet Khaled Mattawa talks about the ongoing demonstrations in his country; and other news.
The wife of Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo continues to live in government-enforced isolation; Barnes & Noble posts a strong sales quarter; the Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year; Joan Didion cancels April appearance; and other news.
Today is International Mother Language Day; digital books could spell the end of marginalia; a bookseller discovers new du Maurier stories; Patti Smith's memoir is up for another book award; and other news.
The most borrowed books in English libraries; a family maid sues the author of The Help; the lost art of book editing; a biopic of J. K. Rowling's life; and other news.
Literary magazines thrive in Los Angeles; National Poem Day in Vietnam; Australia's largest bookseller files for that country's version of bankruptcy; Brooklyn's repulsive novelists; and other news.
People power helps save a few of England's libraries; Borders' bankruptcy filing is part of a disturbing trend for major print book distributors; new Web sites enable far-flung Kindle e-book lending; an unfinished e-book is published chronicling Watson's ongoing contest on Jeopardy; and other news.
To blurb or not to blurb; celebrating Toni Morrison's birthday with a read-a-thon of her work in Kansas; a resurgence of serial novels; Obama proposes a twenty-million-dollar cut to library funding; and other news.
Edouard Glissant dies in Paris at age eighty-two; the lost art of writing love letters; banning e-readers in New York City café; indie-run Bookstore Solutions Management; and other news.
Amazon is closing a distribution center in Texas; Salon launches awards for the best literary sex writing; an author and a librarian study the lifespan of the typical literary magazine; BEA announces breakfast hosts for 2011 conference; and other news.
The e-reader market doubles in the U.K. over the holidays; a "lost novel" by Robert Bolaño will be serialized in the Paris Review; poetry lullabies the revolution each night in Tahrir Square, Egypt; five books for Valentine's Day; and other news.
Bukowski for lovers; Powell's Books in Oregon announces layoffs; a new version of the iPad; birthdays for William S. Burroughs and Elizabeth Bishop; and other news.
Jules Verne gets a Google doodle; unpublished stories by Dashiell Hammett discovered at the Ransom Center; a Russian retelling of Tolkien from Sauron's perspective; the National Book Festival expands to a two-day event; and other news.
The cost of creating an e-book and a hardcover edition are the same; Borders faces delisting from the New York Stock Exchange; DIY e-book making in Japan; indie bookstores making a comeback in New York City; and other news.
The New York Times' new e-book best-seller lists; the role of poetry in the ongoing demonstrations in Egypt; an e-book app that preserves the page format of poetry; Eminem as a literary force; and other news.
Vida reports on the gross underrepresentation of women writers in major literary outlets; tips for navigating AWP; how a revolution is like being in love; a whole new strain of bad writing; and other news.
Black History Month kicks off with a best books list; the Cairo International Book Fair is canceled; a spillion vs. a metric buttload; Apple tightens its grip on e-book apps; and other news.
Jimmy Fallon will publish two books based on a TV sketch; how to bind a ten-thousand-page book; a Senate bill to protect reader privacy; protecting the great library of Alexandria in Egypt; and other news.
Arab writers reflect on events in the Middle East in the past month; authors try to save Harper's; Borders delays payments to landlords; Haruki Murakami's novel 1Q84 will be published in English in October; and other news.
Amazon sells more e-books than paperbacks; Patti Smith inspired by Sherlock Holmes; John McCain's former aide Mark Salter may have authored O; Snooki's disappointing book sales; and other news.
An elderly Japanese woman sells 1.5 million copies of her first book; Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly theory is proven correct; the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum opens; Tóibín replaces the departing Amis at the University of Manchester in England; and other news.
Booksellers learning from bike sellers; all thirty-eight of Shakespeare's plays in different languages; the Digital Book World conference in New York City; India's proposed Copyright Act; and other news.
A heyday for Mark Twain impersonators; Texas proposes devastating state library budget cuts; the longest word in the English language; the 2011 Capetown Book Fair is canceled; and other news.
