- The National Book Award longlists for fiction and non-fiction have been announced. (The New Yorker)
- Fredericton man uses Kafka as defense to keep his job. (CBC)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‘s Charlie Bucket apparently was supposed to be black. (The New York Times)
- Amazon deletes one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new memoir. (MashReads)
- Modern English dictionary creator Samuel Johnson has been honoured with a Google Doodle. Here’s more about him. (The Independent)
- Brock Turner is now literally a textbook example of a rapist. (Salon)
- A look at the uniquely chaotic workspace of bestselling romance author Danielle Steel. (Vanity Fair)
- Smashwords adopts new system for classifying erotic fiction. (Smashwords)
- Explaining bestseller lists. (Vox)
- An argument against publishing found work after an author’s death. (BookRiot)
- Let Idris Elba read you to sleep with Project Literacy. (YouTube)
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