- Simon & Schuster moves up publication date of Bob Dylan lyric book after Nobel win. (GalleyCat)
- Japan sees trend of books envisioning a Trump presidency. (The Washington Post)
- Industry expresses solidarity with Turkish publishers at Frankfurt Book Fair. (Publishers Weekly)
- Malala Yousafzai has signed a deal for her first picture book (GalleyCat)
- U.S. poet Claudia Rankine to use her MacArthur genius grant to study whiteness. (The Guardian)
- The influence of Jewish comic books on Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art. (Forward)
- Please don’t let “bigly” become a word. (Language Log)
- Fiction’s greatest parties ever. (Electric Lit)
- Why we write about witches. (Tor.com)
- The little-known rivalry between poet William Butler Yeats and magician Aleister Crowley. (Open Culture)
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