- The Man Booker Foundation will honour the late Beryl Bainbridge, a five-time Booker Prize nominee, with a special readers’ choice award
- Japanese entrepreneurs take e-book publishing into their own hands … and illegally scan their books for money
- According to BBC News, “Poets are 20 times more likely to end up in an asylum than the general population”
- Baltimore’s Edgar Allen Poe House is at risk of closing
- Michael Oher releases his own memoir in response to The Blind Side
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