- New York-based OR Books will publish Tweets from Tahrir, a compilation of Twitter dispatches from Egypt’s recent political revolution
- The nominees for Quebec’s best French-language comics include Jeff Lemire’s Essex County (trans. Sidonie Van den Dries)
- In the midst of World Book Day’s teen love-in, the Guardian launched a new site made for (and by) young readers
- Break out the loaves and fish, we’ve got ourselves a party: the Bath Literature Festival celebrates the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible by staging a public marathon reading
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