- Paul Beatty named first U.S. winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction for The Sellout. (The Man Booker Prize)
- Read new short fiction by Anne Carson. (The New Yorker)
- Manga sales are on the increase in the U.S. and Amazon is changing e-reader settings in response. (Good e-Reader)
- The Cairo bookstore with a soundproof screaming room. (Melville House)
- Barnes & Noble ends partnership with vanity press Author Solutions. (The Digital Reader)
- Craig Davidson’s hidden horror side. (Electric Lit)
- New York Public Library’s “human Google” service. (The Huffington Post)
- A peek inside a 1961 cookbook for artists and writers. (Open Culture)
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