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Arab writers reflect on events in the Middle East in the past month; authors try to save Harper's; Borders delays payments to landlords; Haruki Murakami's novel 1Q84 will be published in English in October; and other news.
Amazon sells more e-books than paperbacks; Patti Smith inspired by Sherlock Holmes; John McCain's former aide Mark Salter may have authored O; Snooki's disappointing book sales; and other news.
An elderly Japanese woman sells 1.5 million copies of her first book; Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly theory is proven correct; the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum opens; Tóibín replaces the departing Amis at the University of Manchester in England; and other news.
Booksellers learning from bike sellers; all thirty-eight of Shakespeare's plays in different languages; the Digital Book World conference in New York City; India's proposed Copyright Act; and other news.
A heyday for Mark Twain impersonators; Texas proposes devastating state library budget cuts; the longest word in the English language; the 2011 Capetown Book Fair is canceled; and other news.
The 2011 Tournament of Books contenders are announced; storytelling may help lower blood pressure; a collection of John Lennon's personal letters will be published next year; the Reading Force book club; and other news.
How authors strategize to sell books; Jaipur Literary Festival sparks debate; Bob Dylan signs six-book deal; Canadian readers pick up millions of books weekly; and other news.
Ugly fonts may boost reading comprehension; to double space or not to double space; the 202nd anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth; origins of modern physics in Dante's Inferno; and other news.
Checking out every single book in England's Stony Stratford library; today is Thesaurus Day; app is the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2010; Black Ocean tattoos its customers with free lifetime subscriptions; and other news.
Stieg Larsson's partner may finish writing the author's uncompleted last novel; Neil Gaiman will appear on an episode of The Simpsons; Las Vegas reckons with being the country's fifty-second most literate city; the Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers; and other news.
