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The PEN World Voices Festival appoints a new director; Stevie Wonder lobbies the United Nations on behalf of blind readers; Banned Books Week kicks off on Saturday; a controversy over present tense novels; and other news.
Zadie Smith becomes a columnist for Harper's; Donald Rumsfeld is set to publish a memoir; a poetry salon thrives in Damascus, Syria; a Texas bookstore installs an electric car charging station; and other news.
Virgin America to offer e-books on flights; the first bookless library; Paradise Lost is set for a 3D film adaptation; owning a bookstore in Baghdad, Iraq; and other news.
Hanif Kureishi wins the PEN/Pinter award; HarperCollins lands the rights to all things Agatha Christie; an unpublished Ted Hughes poem is discovered among his letters; a rare autographed copy of Catcher in the Rye up for auction may not be authentic; and other news.
Susan Lehman is appointed publisher of Twelve; Tom Wolfe will be awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters; love letters from Oscar Wilde; CityLit Project takes up residence at the University of Baltimore; and other news.
New Ted Hughes letters reveal his strong reaction to American consumerism; the jacket art for David Foster Wallace's forthcoming posthumous novel; an author's pushcart tour of the Northeast; the blurring line between books and the Internet; and other news.
The Vatican Library reopens; Vietnam's thriving second-hand bookstore culture; the David Foster Wallace archive opens in Texas; the e-reader battles get a bit more direct; and other news.
The Brooklyn Book Festival brought a crowd despite the rains; a lost poem by Sir Walter Scott is discovered; Taylor Mali's "What Teachers Make" is plagiarized again; Target stores may soon sell the iPad; and other news.
The Defense Department attempts to purchase and destroy the entire print run of a controversial memoir; the world's most expensive book goes up for auction in December; the Wall Street Journal launches a weekly book review; James Madison University celebrates the life and poetry of Lucille Clifton; and other news.
The Katonah Poetry Series in New York State is on the brink of shutting down; Maple Creek, Canada, hosts its twenty-first annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering; the Poet's Pad app for the iPad; Deepak Chopra's Muhammad gets an early e-release; and other news.
One Story magazine hands out free short stories in Brooklyn, New York; Michel Houellebecq denies plagiarism claims; the big novel makes a comeback; the pleasures of reading multiple books at a time; and other news.
Tony Blair is the target of eggs and shoes at a book signing; a trolley tour of Pittsburgh's indie bookstores; this fall's line up of "heavyweight titles"; Oprah's Book Club will soon announce its next title; and other news.
The shocking story of a twenty-six-year-old reader who loves print books; six women writers win Rona Jaffe Writers' Awards; Slate looks at the NYTBR's track record of reviewing books by men versus women; the oldest typewriter repairman in New Haven, Connecticut, defends his machines; and other news.
Sony announces a new line of e-readers; British poets unite to protest government spending cuts; BOA Editions appoints a new publisher; Toronto's poet laureate launches a new initiative; and other news.
The Virginia Quarterly Review closes its offices and cancels its winter issue; the Chicago Manual of Style makes some key changes; Random House profits double in the first half of 2010; Heart of Darkness gets a graphic novel adaptation; and other news.
Borders will start selling Build-A-Bear merchandise; a Chilean art collective bombs Berlin with one hundred thousand poems; the Beijing Book Fair is off to a great start; the blurring line between comedy and poetry; and other news.
The Gertrude Stein stein and other "non-book literary oddities"; HarperCollins tests a new model of giving away content; the third edition of the OED may not appear in print, or it may; EcoGeek claims publishing industry raw materials come from the harvesting of 125 million trees per year; and other news.
Andrew Wylie is in negotiations with Penguin over digitial rights of books for which the publisher owns print rights; a child in the United Kingdom lands a deal for twenty-three books; the New Yorker Festival announces its all-star lineup; and other news.
Keith Richard and Jay-Z are set to give talks at the NYPL; Barnes & Noble launches another volley against investor Ron Burkle; the new Kindle is "almost ridiculously lightweight"; the PEN American Center announces support for the Park51 Community Center project; and other news.
Random House and the Wylie Agency make nice; the only Yiddish bookstore in New York City loses its home; iBooks may soon include iAds; writing a novel in three days; and other news.
The Faber Academy opens its Toronto campus; Seth Godin ditches traditional publishing, again; the chestnut tree from Anne Frank's diary falls in a storm; Seattle libraries close for a week due to a budget shortfall; and other news.
The University of Virginia's president orders a review into VQR's operations; e-book sales increase 119 percent in June; President Obama gets an advanced copy of Franzen's Freedom; Google's net neutrality policy and the book settlement; and other news.
Forbes publishes a list of the ten top-earning authors; James Franco writes about portraying Allen Ginsberg; Jane Austen's manuscripts are on display at the British Library; Ricky Martin pens a memoir; and other news.
Betty White signs a two-book deal at age eighty-eight; the new Oxford English Dictionary introduces two thousand new words and phrases; David James Duncan's The River Why gets a film adaptation; Durham University offers a course on Harry Potter; and other news.
Sixteen authors sue an Indiana self-publishing company; Patricia Smith's Blood Dazzler gets the stage treatment; a fan of Into the Wild dies on a pilgrimage to Alaska; the Blind Boys of Alabama take on Sophocles in Scotland; and other news.
