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Nobel laureate Derek Walcott has withdrawn from the race to become Oxford’s next professor of poetry — one of British academe’s most powerful positions — after the resurfacing of accusations… Read more »

Lynne Andriani reports on Publishers Weekly that a new weekly TV show that will go to different locations each week and talk to different writers who live there launches today… Read more »

HarperCollins has announced it will be publishing a memoir by failed vice presidential candidate and current Alaska governor Sarah Palin next year when she is running for re-election. According to… Read more »

Though library use is up, public money for libraries is down. And results from this unfortunate state of affairs could hit New York City’s three library systems—Brooklyn, Queens and New… Read more »

The creator of the popular TV show CSI says he has created a new format — the “digi-novel” — that will launch a “revolution in publishing for the YouTube generation.”… Read more »

It’s May 13, and this day in 1916 saw the passing of Sholom Aleichem, the great Yiddish writer whose romance, Wandering Stars — which ends, like its author’s life, in… Read more »