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A Memoirist's Deadly Discovery, Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices, and More
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Author to Repay $22.5 Million for Falsified Memoir, Italian Inmates Cut Prison Time Through Reading, and More
Tennessee school district bans Mark Haddon novel; a Mother’s Day tribute to poet Ruth Stone; the last feminist bookstores in North America; and other news.
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Battle Over LGBT Books in South Carolina, Amazon Muscles Publishers by Delaying Deliveries, and More
HarperCollins announces sales increase; Oyster reaches new benchmark; a close reading of Jennifer Weiner’s work; and other news.
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NYPL Scraps Plans for Controversial Renovation, New Social Network Supports Indie Bookstores, and More
Andrew Wylie versus Amazon; an online reading in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month; North Korea’s bookstores; and other news.
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Vladimir Putin Bans Swearing in Books, Wole Soyinka Decries Nigerian Government’s Response to Kidnapping, and More
Philip Roth’s literature of desire; topless readers take New York City; Kurt Vonnegut’s forays into art; and other news.
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Historic Giovanni’s Room Closes Its Doors, New York City's Secret Libraries, and More
Posman Books readies its fourth store; the argument for free digital libraries; Edwidge Danticat on sugar factories in the Dominican Republic; and other news.
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Penguin to Publish Book on Missing Malaysian Airlines Plane, California Bookstore Day, and More
Junot Díaz’s curriculum; the hilarious mistakes of optical recognition software; the difficulty of portraying writers in film; and other news.
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The former New Yorker staff writer and director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU delivered this keynote address, "A Typology of Convergences: Towards a Unified Field Theory of Cultural Transmission," at the 2013 Graduate Student Conference at the School of Visual Arts.
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HarperCollins to Acquire Harlequin, BookBub Raises $3.8 Million, and More
Will Self on the death of the novel; Diane Keaton’s favorite books; a digital campaign for diversity in literature; and other news.
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