- Ursula Franklin, renowned scientist, educator, and author, has died. (CBC)
- New Harry Potter book Amazon’s top pre-order item of the year. (GalleyCat)
- Margaret Atwood on Trump‚ witches, and flying cats. (Literary Hub)
- Feminist author and professor Roxane Gay to write companion book to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther series. (BookRiot)
- Guantanamo Diary author, and prisoner, Mohamedou Ould Slahi will be released. (Melville House)
- John Crowley to direct movie based on Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. (GalleyCat)
- Publishing industry has high hopes for books about marijuana. (Publishers Weekly)
- Third real-life Quidditch World Cup has come to a close. (The Guardian)
- Warner Bros. reveals new book-related trailers at Comic-Con. (Entertainment Weekly)
- Why did Google erase Dennis Cooper’s blog? (The New Yorker)
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