- U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera composes a poem in memory of Muhammad Ali. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
- BBC presenter Kate Humble told by publisher she’s “not pretty enough” to grace her own book cover, random dog used instead. (The Telegraph)
- Want to sell your book online? One word: yellow. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Research says reading poorly written online content doesn’t exactly help your writing skills. (Slate)
- First issue of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther sells out initial run in U.K. (GalleyCat)
- Amazon launches lawsuits over fake book reviews. (Good e-Reader)
- On “flat” English translations. (The New York Review of Books)
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