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Making it all the sadder, there seem to be no reports at all in the mainstream so far of the death of the amazing translator Barbara Wright, renowned in particular… 2 / Read more »

Yep, it’s happened. Shakespeare on Twitter. That didn’t take long now, did it? According to Florida Creatives, “Twitter of the Shrew – adapted for Twitter by @BrianFeldman from the classic… Read more »

It started when the man who tries to get communities reading the same book for the Big Read program David Kipen — the Director of Literature at the National Endowment… Read more »

“Two new novels by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño have reportedly been found in Spain among papers he left behind after his death,” as well as “what is believed to… Read more »

Updating yesterday’s news about the “urgent” but mysterious withdrawal from publication of Andrew Marr’s bestseller A History of Modern Britain, Sam Jones and Maev Kennedy at The Guardian file a… Read more »

Tired of slaving away on your manuscript? A post-er on the site TeleRead may have the answer for you. David Nygren proposes the idea of writing a novel in Excel.… Read more »

Indie publishers in the UK “have gained overall market share from their larger competitors by five percentage points over the last half-decade,” according to a report in The Bookseller by… Read more »

When Charles Dickens died at age 58 in 1870, many said it was from the strain of a “gruelling” reading tour he’d done of America. There may be some truth… Read more »