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Laura Bush's revealing new memoir is due out in May; a book of Marilyn Monroe's writings is forthcoming from FSG; Cambridge Dictionaries Online adds audio pronuncations; sales of British political manifestos are booming; and other news.
Nooks outshipped Kindles in March; a British author claims to have solved a seventy-year-old murder; Orion takes top honor at the Utne Independent Press Awards; George W. Bush's memoir book jacket and official release date announced; and other news.
New York Magazine solicits volcano poetry from celebrities; jubliat celebrates ten years in print; a rock band puts Paul Celan's Holocaust poetry to music; Random House acquieses on e-book rights for several William Styron titles; and other news.
BEA announces a major new panel; the judge in the Google Book Settlement gets a promotion; the Academy of American Poets annual gala takes place in New York; today is possibly Shakespeare's birthday; and other news.
Barnes & Noble takes the e-reader battle to broadcast television; the FBI is investigating fraud at Naropa University; the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books kicks off on Saturday; Earth Day reflections from a descendant of Henry David Thoreau; and other news.
Book publishers turn to BEA and Frankfurt after the volcano disrupts LBF; another Chinese PEN member is banned from travel; Narrative Magazine develops an iPhone app; a City Lights employee celebrates forty years at the bookshop; and other news.
Emily Dickinson's garden is recreated in the New York Botanical Garden; three nominees emerge for the Oxford poetry professorship; the PEN World Voices Festival gets an iPhone app; Oregon's innovative celebration of National Poetry Month; and other news.
Princeton University and the country of Israel ban iPads; Mark Twain's margin notes can now be perused in Connecticut; George Washington has some overdue library books; Marc Jacobs opens a bookstore; and other news.
The London Book Fair is facing disruptions because of the Icelandic ash cloud; the EU president publishes a book of haiku; titles by Alice Walker and Harper Lee make this year's most challenged books list; the London Review of Books celebrates thirty years in print; and other news.
Arundhati Roy is investigated for links to Maoist insurgents in India; the PEN American Center honors an imprisoned Burmese blogger; the Library of Congress will archive all public tweets; Apple delays the worldwide release of the iPad; and other news.
