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A raccoon sneaks into the Brooklyn Public Library; Justice Sotomayor signs with Knopf to write a memoir; Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy may become a quadrilogy; the Los Angeles Times names a new book review editor; and other news.
Mark Twain's memoir goes to print; Anne Frank's diary becomes a graphic novel; Poets House puts on its annual book showcase; the value of book blurbs is up for debate; and other news.
Gulf Coast launches a subscription drive to benefit the Gulf crisis; an antique dealer is convicted of possessing a stolen original Shakespeare folio; a Nick Cave novel will be made into a TV mini-series; Sony may be developing an e-reader that is also a hand-held gaming device; and other news.
The Harry Ransom Center acquires Denis Johnson's papers; the NEA announces this year's Big Read grants; Oxford University opens Project Woruldhord; Lisa Rundle is rehired by Penguin Canada; and other news.
Borders arrives late to the e-book store party; the Alzheimer's Poetry Project is improving lives in Central Florida; publishers react to proposal for postal rate increase; the Boston Globe launches a citywide reading program; and other news.
Jonathan Franzen's forthcoming novel already has booksellers hopeful; reading e-books will take you longer compared to reading printed books; Tin House and Dzanc Books support bookstores; Sony lowers the price on its line of e-readers; and other news.
Amazon slashes the price of the Kindle DX; a Faulkner and Film conference takes place later this month in Mississippi; Canada's iBookstore opens on Canada Day; McDonald's teams up with the Detroit Public Library; and other news.
A Walt Whitman "freak-out jam" takes place in Brooklyn, New York, tonight; W. S. Merwin is appointed U.S. poet laureate; Christopher Hitchens cancels his book tour to undergo cancer treatment; scientists name a prehistoric whale after Herman Melville; and other news.
Google partners with indie booksellers; the grand-prize winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is announced; Muse Books in Florida celebrates thirty years; the rise of Dalit lit; and other news.
J. M. Coetzee makes a rare public appearance in England; Jeff Bezos discusses the future of the book with Fortune; Harper Lee grants her first interview in four years; Barnes & Noble has a banner fiscal year; and other news.
Yet another alternative "twenty under forty" list is released, this time by Dzanc Books; the Independent laments today's "needy, neurotic" vampires; Gertrude Stein's poetry is letterpressed onto dresses in San Francisco; a Welsh grandmother publishes her debut novel at age eighty-two; and other news.
PEN American Center launches a new online reading group; Rhode Island's state poem proposal is nixed; General Stanley McChrystal wrote fiction and was the editor of West Point's literary magazine; the iPhone 4 draws the usual crowds; and other news.
A rare collection of William Faulkner books sells for a lot of money at auction; Robyn Cresswell has been appointed poetry editor of the Paris Review; the fourth Shakespeare and Company literary festival took place in Paris this weekend; Borders launches an iPhone app; and other news.
The new Dostoyevsky metro station in Moscow might be a little grim; the Eat, Pray, Love film adaptation is due in August with a host of product tie-ins; Apple sells its three millionth iPad; Andrew Phillips is named president of Penguin International; and other news.
John Updike's typwriter is up for auction; a price war heats up in the e-reader market; Publishers Weekly ranks the world's biggest publishers; after six years the Google Books settlement still has no end in sight; and other news.
The Salinger estate attempts to fend off Hollywood; Geoffrey Hill wins the Oxford post in a landslide; the childhood home of Stanley Kunitz is made a Literary Landmark; the New York Times takes a sneak peek into John Updike's archives; and other news.
Nick Hornby helps Ben Folds make literary music; another "20 Under 40" list emerges, from Britain; a group of prominent African authors head to the continent to cover their experiences during the World Cup; a novelist with his pen on the pulse of pop culture designs a clothing line; and other news.
Austria strikes a digitization deal with Google; Stieg Larsson's longtime companion refuses a settlement from the author's family; New York library users stage a read-in; the twentieth annual International Poetry Festival of Medellin kicks off next month in Columbia; and other news.
The Millions "alternate-universe" 20 Under 40 list; Ulysses Seen gets a reprieve from Apple just in time for Bloomsday; Jack Kerouac's last typewriter is up for auction; Little, Brown launches a crime imprint; and other news.
New details emerge in the Penguin Canada sexual harrassment case; Eamon Grennan donates his literary archives to the growing Irish collection at Emory University; the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library announces her retirement; still more Oxford professor of poetry controversy; and other news.
Apple censors Ulysses Seen days before Bloomsday celebrations; J.G. Ballard's archives go to the British National Library; the former publisher of Penguin Canada is accused of sexual harrassment; a billionaires' summer reading list; and other news.
Amazon announces a Kindle app for Android phones; Flavorwire picks the ultimate World Cup reading list; New York City gears up for next week's Bloomsday events; the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest takes place this weekend; and other news.
A new storm of controversy surrounds the Oxford professor of poetry post; Obama will write the foreword to Nelson Mandela's forthcoming diaries; Washington D.C.'s most prominent indie bookstore is up for sale; and other news.
Steve Jobs's iPad e-book sales claim is debunked; FSG announces plans to publish a collection of work from the New Yorker's "20 under 40;" Vaclav Havel wins the Franz Kafka Prize; Boston marks the fiftieth anniversary of Lowell's "For the Union Dead;" and other news.
The 2010 Library of the Year is announced; several unpublished stories by Stieg Larsson are uncovered in Sweden; a new imprint will release short stories on vinyl records; the National Poetry Awards will take place in North Carolina this August; and other news.
