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Assange may have already sold his memoirs to Knopf; Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants hits the big screen; a literary quiz for the winter solstice; a writer's report from the e-book summit in New York City; and other news.
A British author seeks to become a publicly traded entity; Ron Howard embarks on an ambitious Dark Tower adaptation; the vast possibilities of Google's searchable books archive; publishers have high hopes for Christmas Day e-book sales; and other news.
Poet Maya Angelou pens a cookbook; the fight to save Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's house in Surrey, England; a second PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award is announced; the man who loved books too much strikes again; and other news.
Jane Austen gets a Google doodle on her birthday; poetry helps an elderly woman survive a fall; exploring poetry's role in protest politics; letters to Santa from Shakespeare characters; and other news.
Curtis Brown Creative launches the first creative writing school run by a literary agency; Sam Lipsyte and Margaret Atwood rewrite the narrative of Obama's presidency; the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at President Bush signs a book deal; good sex in fiction; and other news.
Jamaica honors Ian Fleming with an international airport; Utah's poet laureate brings the winter news from Antarctica; self-promoting with integrity; an in-depth look at Google eBooks; and other news.
A Georgia community throws a surprise party for an indie bookstore; "writer" is named to most depressing careers list; a hate crime at Harvard University's Lamont Library; digital technology and the African American book market; and other news.
Imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo receives Nobel Peace Prize in absentia; Jane Campion's Keats homage, Bright Star, honored by Australian Film Institute; the Winning Words project wants poem nominations for an Olympic poetry installation; Huff Po reports on the biggest gift books of the season; and other news.
Dean Young needs a heart transplant; Ilya Kaminsky is appointed director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute; the rise of Yiddish literature; why I love reading (hashtag #whyIread); and other news.
Michael Chabon is named chair of the MacDowell Colony; the octothorpe's remarkable comeback; Meanjin celebrates seventy years; a Kindle app for the Web; and other news.
