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Steve Jobs, the enigmatic leader of Apple, has stepped down; Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood has been banned from a high school reading list in New Jersey; surrounded by Jack Kerouac; and other news.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is Sunday and Washington's libraries offer a supporting reading list; Jorge Luis Borges's 112th birthday; e-books with synchronized music soundtracks; and other news.
Moammar Gaddafi's influence on his country's literature; the e-book market is struggling to take hold in Japan; Keith Gessen answers criticism from Joseph Brodsky's literary executor; and other news.
The latest consumer spending numbers indicate an increase in e-book purchases; writers paid to post fake reviews; the Obama family's vacation reading; and other news.
From independent bookstores such as McNally Jackson Books in SoHo to long-time forums such as the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church on the Lower East Side, T Cooper, author, most recently, of The Beaufort Diaries, visits his favorite places to research, revise, and read in New York City.
Western Europe is experiencing a massive shift toward e-books; the best literary shows on television; the new Concise Oxford English Dictionary lists "sexting" as a noun; and other news.
Investment news sent Barnes & Noble stock into a tailspin; Disney has donated five hundred thousand dollars and eight million books to a children's charity; BookPage lists the twenty-five fall books they're most excited about; and other news.
A Judge has dismissed the case against novelist Kathryn Stockett; BookTour.com is shutting down September 1; Literary Brooklyn; dispatches from the Edinburgh International Book Festival; and other news.
Californians have launched a boycott of Amazon over its sales tax stance; Novelist Tom Perrota is the latest literary star to ink a deal with HBO; David Sedaris is not running for president of the United States; and other news.
The future of books considered; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective is banned from a Virginia classroom; Best New Poets anthology released; and other news.
