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Powell's Books has acquired Anne Rice's personal library; Flavorwire celebrates Halloween with a horror writer graveyard tour; ghostwriting for Keith Richards; a Maine used-book store owner gets in trouble with a political ethics committee; and other news.
Arundhati Roy may face sedition charges in India; Barnes & Noble unveils the Nook Color; the Schomburg Center in New York City acquires Maya Angelou's papers; the Jane Austen Conference in Portland, Oregon; and other news.
Franzen meets the president; Texas bills Amazon for $269 million; Barnes & Noble may unveil a full-color Nook today; Sherman Alexie gets selected for One Book, One Philadelphia, twice; and other news.
Loaning books on a Kindle; the Paris Review interviews are all available online; Electric Literature launches a book app service; Steinbeck's son loses literary estate court battle; and other news.
Turn your handwriting into a font; Salman Rushdie signs a multimillion dollar memoir deal with Random House; the Dead Sea Scrolls will soon be available for free online; Amazon underwrites the Best Translated Book Awards; and other news.
A textbook author rewrites Civil War history, incorrectly; author Jon Meacham becomes an editor at Random House; book collecting as a long-term financial strategy; Blurb's pop-up store in New York City; and other news.
A new exhibit in Chicago on the origins of written language; global Literary Death Match; Mumbai University drops a book from its curriculum after threats from extremists; Mark Twain's autobiography hits number one on Amazon's bestseller list; and other news.
Delivering books by Dobbin in New Zealand; HTML Giant's new Literary Magazine Club; Editor & Publisher replaces its editorial staff; the Georgetown library reopens after being destroyed by a fire; and other news.
Meet the "mine poet"; Charles Olson turns one hundred; Stieg Larsson trained guerilla soldiers in Africa; the aftermath of the National Book Award announcement; a new Vargas Llosa novel is forthcoming; and other news.
VQR's Ted Genoways breaks his silence; Simon Armitage wins the Keats-Shelley Prize; the art of literary revenge; Vintage Classics makes 3D book jackets; and other news.
Indonesia strikes down its book-banning law; streaming The Novel: Live from Seattle's Richard Hugo House; a rare first edition of 1984 is found in a charity bin; a National Digital Library is proposed in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson; and other news.
A co-owner of Politics & Prose in Washington D.C. dies of cancer; NPR admits to over promoting one of its own author-hosts; J. K. Rowling is voted the most influential woman in Britain; the Chinese government continues to rail against Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize; and other news.
The Orange Award for New Writers is suspended; Amazon to launch short-form e-books; Bukowski ephemera goes on display at the Huntington Library; best-selling novelist Alice Sebold takes a book editor job; and other news.
Staples stores will soon sell the Kindle; Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize; Stephen King is America's favorite author; the twenty-seventh annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering; and other news.
CreateSpace announces a partnership with the Library of Congress; Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins the Nobel Prize for Literature; a newly discovered Ted Hughes poem addresses Sylvia Plath's suicide; a librarian spends two years tracking down a book thief and finally gets his man; and other news.
The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival kicks off in Newark, New Jersey, tomorrow; Borders' corporate headquarters in Michigan is up for sale; the inaugural John Updike Society conference takes place in Pennsylvania; writing by hand helps us think better; and other news.
A staged reading of Elizabeth Bishop's letters in New York City tonight; two e-books cost more than their hardcover counterparts; Jonathan Franzen's glasses are stolen off his face, then recovered; why we love fiction; and other news.
Barnes & Noble launches a DIY digital publishing platform; U.K. poet marks transit strike in verse; Philip Larkin's letters reveal lover as muse; the politics and sport behind book awards; and other news.
Granta's announces a list of the best young Spanish-language novelists; the wrong version of Freedom is published in the U.K.; Toronto's giant poetry mural for human rights; Random House hires Gourmet's former editor-in-chief; and other news.
Blio launches to mostly negative reviews; a Texas appeals court hears a critical case regarding First Amendment protections for books; Google launches a Latin translator; 82 percent of the nation's libraries now have Wi-Fi; and other news.
Leonard Riggio retains control of Barnes & Noble; the Unabomber publishes his manifesto; Tomas Tranströmer is the odds-on favorite to win this year's Nobel Prize; actor Gene Hackman gets a book deal with Simon & Schuster; and other news.
The seventy-sixth PEN International Congress takes place this week in Tokyo; Jonathan Lethem leaves Brooklyn, New York, for a teaching post in California; the 2010 MacArthur Fellows are announced; a nineteen-year-old Nigerian writer signs a two-book deal with Faber; and other news.
A private company runs sixty-three public library branches; the top ten most frequently banned books; Elizabeth Gaskell gets honored in Poets' Corner; the Strand Book Store in New York City starts selling candy; and other news.
Boston's indie bookstore scene; today is National Punctuation Day; a peek into the James Franco experience at Brooklyn College; Montclair, New Jersey's adult summer reading competition; and other news.
10 percent of Americans use e-readers; John Milton's dirty limerick; e-book sales may already be cannibalizing print book sales; the only bookstore in Bayonne, New Jersey, is set to close; and other news.
