John Hopkins name new research building after Henrietta Lacks
Johns Hopkins University just announced that the school will name a new research building after Henrietta Lacks, the "mother of modern medicine" whose cancer cells revolutionized medical research--and...
View ArticleNeed a handbag or a tie to land your first job? Borrow one with a library card
Handbags, briefcases and ties can be checked out for up to three weeks at a time at the Riverside branch of the New York Public Library, as part of a pilot program dreamed up by Michelle Lee, a young...
View ArticleThe 2018 National Book Award finalists are in, including a new category for...
The finalists for the National Book Award are in, and this year, there's more of them than ever before. For 2018, the National Book Foundation has added a new category for translated literature, in...
View ArticleThe number of self-published titles topped 1 million in 2017
The number of self-published books topped the 1 million mark for the first time in 2017, according to Bowker's annual report on the number of ISBNs that were issued to self-published authors. The total...
View ArticleGreat American Read Top 10 announced
The deadline is approaching to cast votes for the USA's best-loved novel. To date, more than 3.8 million votes have been cast. Organizers of The Great American Read have released a Top 10 list of the...
View ArticleCyber criminals attempt to steal manuscripts from major publishers
A spate of global phishing scams attempting to access agencies' and publishers' manuscripts and other sensitive information prompted Penguin Random House North America to issue an urgent warning to all...
View ArticleAlternative Nobel Prize awarded to Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé
The New Academy Prize in Literature 2018 has been awarded to Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé. She is the author of about 20 novels, including I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem; Tales from the Heart:...
View ArticleMilkman by Anna Burns, wins 2018 Man Booker Prize
Anna Burns won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her third novel, Milkman. Burns, 56, is the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the Booker. She accepted the prize tonight at a lavish ceremony in...
View ArticleRandom House and Crown Publishing Groups Merge
The Crown Publishing Group has joined the Random House Publishing Group in a newly-combined division reporting to current Random House president and publisher Gina Centrello, who has been named...
View ArticleEleven San Francisco bookstores get cash assistance from city
Nearly a dozen San Francisco bookstores received a special gift from the city this week $103,000 in total grant money to help them through a time when books can be delivered to one's door at the...
View ArticleTodd Bol, founder of the Little Free Library dies aged 62
Todd Bol, founder and executive director of the Little Free Library who "spent much of the last decade working towards his vision of a world where neighbors know each other by name, and everyone has...
View ArticleHow Neil Gaiman's Sandman universe is expanding
The groundbreaking comics author has bequeathed his fantasy universe to a new generation of writers, who reveal their changes to his unconscious world... When Neil Gaiman announced in March that he...
View ArticleTo Kill a Mockingbird wins PBS's Great American Read
To Kill a Mockingbird has been voted by viewers of PBS's Great American Read as America's #1 best-loved novel. The show aired its final episode on Monday evening. Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series came...
View ArticleEvelyn Anthony, author of more than 50 novels, dies aged 92
Evelyn Anthony, who wrote more than 50 novels, including The Tamarind Seed, which was turned into a hit film in 1974, has died aged 92: She was an unlikely pioneering feminist. The daughter of a...
View Article'Well-Read Black Girl' - Instagram, book club, and now book
What started as Glory Edim's Instagram account has grown to a book club, a festival and now, a book, "Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves." Well-Read Black Girl started as...
View ArticleB&N filing: Ex-CEO Parneros was harasser, bully, saboteur
In a court filing in response to the August suit by former CEO Demos Parneros, who was suddenly fired without severance in July, Barnes & Noble alleges that Parneros was justifiably fired because...
View ArticleHundreds form human chain to move thousands of books for a local bookstore
The plea went out a few weeks ago from October Books in the port city of Southampton, England: "Care to lend a hand?" Volunteers were needed to help the store move to a new location about 500 feet down...
View ArticleBooksellers protest Amazon affiliate AbeBooks
Beginning today and lasting a week, more than 300 booksellers around the world are not selling titles on AbeBooks, the Amazon subsidiary that specializes in collectible and used books, to protest...
View ArticleA Tribute to Todd H. Bol: A Little Free Library board member recalls what...
... For those of us lucky enough to know Todd, it was not only the adorable, customizable structures of the libraries that made him happy but it was something far bigger: community. For Todd, Little...
View ArticleJin Yong, literary giant of the Chinese-speaking world dies aged 94
Jin Yong, a literary giant of the Chinese-speaking world whose fantastical epic novels inspired countless film, television and video game adaptations and were read by generations of ethnic Chinese,...
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