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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.
Bantam Dell and Ballantine merge at Random House; Chile decides against naming its main airport after Pablo Neruda; Goldman Sachs predicts a jump in book sales; Spring Design launches the Alex eReader; and other news.
Chalk a couple up for the small publishers; a nonprofit literacy group could lose its federal financing; Amazon is approved for a Canadian distribution center; Glenn Beck "inspires" haiku; and other news.
Meet the iPad's forthcoming competitors; England sees a resurgance of radical bookshops; faculty salary increases are at a fifty-year low; Boston may soon close four library branches; and other news.
Yan Martel receives a note from President Obama; the iPad sells strongly in its first week; the Chinese media is restricted from writing anything about Google; Oprah Winfrey may launch a new book club program; and other news.
Kindle at Target, Nook at Best Buy; Swiss scholar Tariq Ramadan finally arrives in the United States after years of legal tangles; according to the AAP, 2009 book sales declined 1.8 percent; ALA staffers face furloughs due to budget shortfalls; and other news.
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall wins the Morning News Tournament of Books; the PEN American Center leads a new effort to free writers imprisoned in Iran; visual artists file a suit against Google's digital library initiative; an Egyptian publisher is kidnapped by security officials for publishing a book praising a Nobel Peace Prize winner; and other news.
