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Barnes & Noble launches a DIY digital publishing platform; U.K. poet marks transit strike in verse; Philip Larkin's letters reveal lover as muse; the politics and sport behind book awards; and other news.
In this promotional video directed by Roman Coppola, actor Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited) introduces the New Yorker's new app for the iPad.
Granta's announces a list of the best young Spanish-language novelists; the wrong version of Freedom is published in the U.K.; Toronto's giant poetry mural for human rights; Random House hires Gourmet's former editor-in-chief; and other news.
The international lit mag Granta celebrates the publication of its new Pakistan Issue with a video interpretation.
Blio launches to mostly negative reviews; a Texas appeals court hears a critical case regarding First Amendment protections for books; Google launches a Latin translator; 82 percent of the nation's libraries now have Wi-Fi; and other news.
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.
