- Fifty-four cats rode out Hurricane Irma in Ernest Hemingway’s Key West home. (Open Culture)
- Maybe every city should take after Detroit and appoint a “chief storyteller.” (Melville House)
- An early look at Malala Yousafzai’s new picture book. (MashReads)
- Barnes & Noble to fight declining sales with more stores. (Publishers Weekly)
- Apparently taking pirated ebooks off the market doesn’t affect book sales. (Publishing Perspectives)
- “Book doulas” are helping authors bring their manuscripts to fruition. (The Guardian)
- A tour of Toronto’s newly opened Harry Potter store. (BookRiot)
- All of the differences between the new movie adaptation of Stephen King’s It and the 1990 miniseries. (MashReads)
- Ten books written on a bet. (Electric Lit)
- Wolverine and Swamp Thing co-creator Len Wein dies at 69. (Vox)
- John Steinbeck’s step-daughter wins $13 million from his literary estate in lawsuit. (Los Angeles Times)
- How to salvage a water-damaged book collection. (Chron)
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