- From Harry Potter to Fifty Shades, what the annual list of top banned books reveals about our society (Time)
- On last night’s U.S. presidential debates: The king of horror writing on the horror of a Trump presidency (The Guardian); The Art of the Deal ghostwriter advises Clinton (Huffington Post); and Clinton and Trump‚ the Victorian novel edition. (The New Yorker)
- New California law will impede sales of autographed books. (Teleread)
- Athens named UNESCO’s World Book Capital of 2018 while it loses its largest bookstore this month. (Publishing Perspectives)
- J.K. Rowling insists that no‚ Internet trolls‚ Harambe is not a Harry Potter patronus. (The Independent)
- How deliberately writing like crap made this poet a better writer. (Best American Poetry)
- Publishers can now sell their titles for free on Nook. (The Digital Reader)
- Are we approaching a time when robots will win literary prizes? (LitHub)
- Watch the trailer for the forthcoming Maya Angelou biopic. (GalleyCat)
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