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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Hanif Kureishi wins the PEN/Pinter award; HarperCollins lands the rights to all things Agatha Christie; an unpublished Ted Hughes poem is discovered among his letters; a rare autographed copy of Catcher in the Rye up for auction may not be authentic; and other news.
Susan Lehman is appointed publisher of Twelve; Tom Wolfe will be awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters; love letters from Oscar Wilde; CityLit Project takes up residence at the University of Baltimore; and other news.
New Ted Hughes letters reveal his strong reaction to American consumerism; the jacket art for David Foster Wallace's forthcoming posthumous novel; an author's pushcart tour of the Northeast; the blurring line between books and the Internet; and other news.
Agent Nathan Bransford of Curtis Brown, Ltd., in San Francisco talks about what he looks for in a pitch.
The Vatican Library reopens; Vietnam's thriving second-hand bookstore culture; the David Foster Wallace archive opens in Texas; the e-reader battles get a bit more direct; and other news.
Novelist and, as of this month, memoirist Darin Strauss reveals the three books he'd want to read if he was marooned on a desert island.
The Brooklyn Book Festival brought a crowd despite the rains; a lost poem by Sir Walter Scott is discovered; Taylor Mali's "What Teachers Make" is plagiarized again; Target stores may soon sell the iPad; and other news.
The Defense Department attempts to purchase and destroy the entire print run of a controversial memoir; the world's most expensive book goes up for auction in December; the Wall Street Journal launches a weekly book review; James Madison University celebrates the life and poetry of Lucille Clifton; and other news.
British author Andrea Levy, whose latest novel, The Long Song, is shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, offers some advice for writers who want to be published.
