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The Millions "alternate-universe" 20 Under 40 list; Ulysses Seen gets a reprieve from Apple just in time for Bloomsday; Jack Kerouac's last typewriter is up for auction; Little, Brown launches a crime imprint; and other news.
New details emerge in the Penguin Canada sexual harrassment case; Eamon Grennan donates his literary archives to the growing Irish collection at Emory University; the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library announces her retirement; still more Oxford professor of poetry controversy; and other news.
Apple censors Ulysses Seen days before Bloomsday celebrations; J.G. Ballard's archives go to the British National Library; the former publisher of Penguin Canada is accused of sexual harrassment; a billionaires' summer reading list; and other news.
Amazon announces a Kindle app for Android phones; Flavorwire picks the ultimate World Cup reading list; New York City gears up for next week's Bloomsday events; the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest takes place this weekend; and other news.
A new storm of controversy surrounds the Oxford professor of poetry post; Obama will write the foreword to Nelson Mandela's forthcoming diaries; Washington D.C.'s most prominent indie bookstore is up for sale; and other news.
Steve Jobs's iPad e-book sales claim is debunked; FSG announces plans to publish a collection of work from the New Yorker's "20 under 40;" Vaclav Havel wins the Franz Kafka Prize; Boston marks the fiftieth anniversary of Lowell's "For the Union Dead;" and other news.
The 2010 Library of the Year is announced; several unpublished stories by Stieg Larsson are uncovered in Sweden; a new imprint will release short stories on vinyl records; the National Poetry Awards will take place in North Carolina this August; and other news.
Brad Pitt options The Imperfectionists; the Association of Ghostwriters launches; E. M. Forester stopped writing novels because of sex; Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos compares printed books to horses; and other news.
A collection of first-edition books may sell for twenty million
dollars at auction; Amazon is preparing a new version of the Kindle; Walt Whitman's meteors were real after all; the Calabash literary festival goes off without a hitch despite major violence in Kingston; and other news.
June is National Audiobook Month; North America's oldest gay bookstore is on the brink of closure; Jonathan Karp replaces David Rosenthal as head of Simon & Schuster's adult trade division; the New Yorker's "20 under 40" list is analyzed by the New York Times; and other news.
