April 8, 2017

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• Bob Dylan Will (Finally) Collect his Nobel Prize for Literature
• Ahmed Naji on his wait to hear if Egyptian court will clear him to write again
• History: Four New Digital Collections Available Online From the Library of Congress
• WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SET YOUR NOVEL  AT HARVARD?
• Did Vladimir Nabokov Write the Great Refugee Novel?
• Norway Gets a New Doomsday Vault That Stores Data
• Louise Dean launches 90-day writers' community
• Revealed: Self-styled 'grammar vigilante' corrects badly punctuated shop signs in dead of night
• Novels By Former Builder, Magistrate, And Bbc Journalist Longlisted For 10th Anniversary Desmond Elliott Prize
• The Illustrated Prague Haggadah That Survived 500 Years, Scanned, Digitized, and Now Online From National Library of Israel
• WHY LITERATURE AND POP CULTURE STILL CAN’T GET THE MIDWEST RIGHT
• The literary tomboy is dead – or is she?
• George Takei Is Writing a Graphic Novel About His Family’s Experience in a Japanese Internment Camp
• Bernie Sanders joins 30th Hay Festival line-up
• INDIA’S NATIONALIST ASSAULT ON INTELLECTUALS AND STUDENTS
• Academic Libraries: ITHAKA S+R Releases “US Library Survey 2016″ Report
• How James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time still lights the way towards equality
• I’m a writer, but my autistic child can barely speak
• Webby Awards 2017 nominees include Stranger Things, Jimmy Fallon, Game of Thrones
• Axel Alonso and David Gabriel Say Marvel “Changed Too Many Characters,” Publisher “Is Not About Politics”
• Angry Scheffler slams Brexit’s effect on arts
• Acquisitions: The Joffrey Ballet’s Archive Donated to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• 50 FICTIONAL DAYS IMMORTALIZED  IN LITERATURE
• 20 FANTASTIC EDIBLE BOOKS FROM THE WORLD’S BIGGEST EDIBLE BOOK FESTIVAL
• Amazon Books to descend on New York like a swarm of locusts
• How New York magazine is growing commerce revenue
• Kobo acquires e-book and print bundling service Shelfie
• HighWire and Hypothesis partner to bring annotation to publishers
• Do two unpublished books make you a failed author? No, you're a quitter
• THE LONGEST WINTER: OR WHY IT TOOK ME 15 YEARS TO FINISH MY NOVEL
• Hemingway in Love
• Scientists Create a Wheel of Old Book Smells
• Don’t say divorce, say special relationship: the thorny language of Brexit
• Ebooks usage 2016: a glance at the figures
• 29 Academic Publishers, Wikimedia Foundation, DataCite, and MANY Others Launch “Initiative for Open Citations”
• THE WEEK IN LITERARY FILM AND TV NEWS
• The Language of Poets: 10 Notable Forms
• America’s unhealthy obsession with productivity is driving its biggest new reading trend
• Japanese handbook on maternal and child health made into app for Palestinian refugees in Jordan
• How a New Law Is Making It Difficult for Russia’s Aggregators to Tell What's New(s)
• “Handle history with care – it might come back to bite you”: Stephen Coan on Tribing and Untribing the Archive
• Joan Nathan’s New Book Ties Biblical Cooking to the World of Today
• Punctuation that failed to make the mark

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