Two for Tuesday: How banned are the banned books?
Topics discussed: National Basketball Association, podcasts, In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg, You Must Remember This, Charles Manson, Karina Longworth, President Obama, WTF with Marc Maron, The Bugle, John Oliver, The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, W.… Read more »
Bestselling novelist Shin Kyung-sook accused of plagiarism
Shin Kyung-sook, author of Please Look After Mom and I’ll Be Right There, has been accused of plagiarism by author Lee Eung-jun. Kyung-sook, whose first book sold two million copies… Read more »
Washington bookstore goes nonprofit
A struggling independent bookstore in Auburn, Washington (about 30 miles south of Seattle) is taking innovative measures to stay in business. Robert Whale writes for the Auburn Reporter that Finally… Read more »
Memoir by Japanese killer “Boy A” provokes uproar
In the long history of monstrous criminals writing books, there are plenty of obstacles to publication. Sometimes the law intercedes, sometimes the killer doesn’t manage to sell the book, and… Read more »
James Joyce’s growing popularity in China
When people think about Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses, they typically think of Dublin, the city in which the novel’s action take place—they probably wouldn’t think of… Read more »
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