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Leonard Riggio retains control of Barnes & Noble; the Unabomber publishes his manifesto; Tomas Tranströmer is the odds-on favorite to win this year's Nobel Prize; actor Gene Hackman gets a book deal with Simon & Schuster; and other news.
The seventy-sixth PEN International Congress takes place this week in Tokyo; Jonathan Lethem leaves Brooklyn, New York, for a teaching post in California; the 2010 MacArthur Fellows are announced; a nineteen-year-old Nigerian writer signs a two-book deal with Faber; and other news.
A private company runs sixty-three public library branches; the top ten most frequently banned books; Elizabeth Gaskell gets honored in Poets' Corner; the Strand Book Store in New York City starts selling candy; and other news.
Boston's indie bookstore scene; today is National Punctuation Day; a peek into the James Franco experience at Brooklyn College; Montclair, New Jersey's adult summer reading competition; and other news.
On Monday Stevie Wonder addressed the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization to request improved accessibility to copyright protected works by the visually impaired.
10 percent of Americans use e-readers; John Milton's dirty limerick; e-book sales may already be cannibalizing print book sales; the only bookstore in Bayonne, New Jersey, is set to close; and other news.
The PEN World Voices Festival appoints a new director; Stevie Wonder lobbies the United Nations on behalf of blind readers; Banned Books Week kicks off on Saturday; a controversy over present tense novels; and other news.
Zadie Smith becomes a columnist for Harper's; Donald Rumsfeld is set to publish a memoir; a poetry salon thrives in Damascus, Syria; a Texas bookstore installs an electric car charging station; and other news.
Virgin America to offer e-books on flights; the first bookless library; Paradise Lost is set for a 3D film adaptation; owning a bookstore in Baghdad, Iraq; and other news.
Hanif Kureishi wins the PEN/Pinter award; HarperCollins lands the rights to all things Agatha Christie; an unpublished Ted Hughes poem is discovered among his letters; a rare autographed copy of Catcher in the Rye up for auction may not be authentic; and other news.
