Spy thriller written by convicted serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo becomes Amazon bestseller before quietly being removed from site. (Melville House) Anne Frank’s father, Otto, made co-author of daughter’s diary in bid to extend ... Read More »

Illinois woman reads book of poems about racial injustice on camera during a Donald Trump speech. (Try doing that with an e-book.) (Huffington Post) Jennifer Clement, PEN International’s first female president, on the organization’s future. ... Read More »

Twentieth-century first editions have doubled in value in the past decade; Gatsby tops list. (The Guardian) U.K. tech entrepreneurs to open “experiential” bookstore aimed at millennials. (The Bookseller) Twenty-one small-press origin stories. (Literary Hub) Virginia ... Read More »

Ten Canadian authors make longlist for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award. (Dublin Literary Award) Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Stéphane Charbonnier's book to be published posthumously in January. (Entertainment Weekly) Charles Darwin's On The Origin of ... Read More »

Chilean government reveals Nobel Prize–winning poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned. (Flavorwire) Reader posts social media star Josh "The Fat Jew" Ostrovsky's entire book on Twitter, claiming the author's career is based on plagiarism. (Good Ereader) ... Read More »

News Corp blames HarperCollins's poor quarter on low sales for Divergent series and ebooks. (Publishers Weekly) The process of translating an "untranslatable" Russian novel. (Literary Hub) No smoochie-woochie here: Nabokov's preferred endearments for his wife ... Read More »