- Playboy‘s legacy of supporting fiction implies great literature is an exclusively male interest. (HuffPost)
- That said: The 10 best stories published in Playboy, including Margaret Atwood’s “The Bog Man.” (Literary Hub)
- Experts say it’s now OK to flagrantly split infinitives. (Melville House)
- People magazine launches a new TV show about books. (People)
- Librarian who rejected Melania Trump’s “racist” Dr. Seuss donation dressed as Cat in the Hat two years ago. (MassLive)
- U.K. children’s authors claim World Book Day organizers favoured celebrity lineup over one with actual writers. (The Guardian)
- Letters reveal Marcel Proust apparently paid for positive reviews of his books. (The Telegraph)
- Dolly Parton on board to produce new music for film adaptation of Julie Murphy’s YA novel Dumplin’. (E! News)
- Happy Banned Books Week! Here are 11 Canadian titles that have been challenged. (CBC Books).
- Sixteen famous authors talk about their banned books. (Entertainment Weekly)
- Writing Spaces project shows where modern novels are written. (Electric Lit)
- Drama Book Shop makes plans to celebrate its centennial—only to discover it was last year. (The New York Times)
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