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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.
An unpublished Philip Larkin poem is discovered in a shoebox; Google launches eBooks, finally; a Borders investor sizes up a bid for Barnes & Noble; Oprah's next book club picks; and other news.
The year in disturbing celebrity book deals; an indie bookseller starts a blog called Against Amazon; Barnes & Noble's chair is named Person of the Year; Steve Martin finds a tough audience at the 92 Street Y; and other news.
A volume of Liu Xiaobo's writing will be published in English for the first time; the World Book Night initiative launches in Ireland and the U.K.; the most read man in the world; Paul Thomas Anderson may adapt Pynchon's Inherent Vice; and other news.
Hanukkah stories from NPR; The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo gets a stage adaptation in Denmark; information overload dates back to Gutenberg; Cape Town launches a literary festival; and other news.
Google Editions may launch before New Year's; God is set to publish a memoir with Simon & Schuster; an Australian author sues a critic over a negative review; buy the name of a fictional character in your favorite author's next book; and other news.
James Franco will host the Oscars with Anne Hathaway; the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award; Penguin brings its classics to Arabic-speaking countries; Arundhati Roy faces more controversy in India; and other news.
One hundred notable books of 2010 from the New York Times; the AAWW starts a New York City neighborhood blog; MFA debates—Victorian and contemporary; the love letters of Vladimir Nabokov; and other news.
