[UPDATED] B&N says it really doesn’t want to carry Amazon’s books, but the fucking things just show up B & N is “not selling Amazon titles”… Read more »
Criteria for banned books in Iran This week is the 30th anniversary of ALA’s Banned Books week, which is dedicated to ensuring the “availability of all viewpoints to all who wish to read them.” Our own… Read more »
Junot Diaz is doing okay The MacArthur Foundation has announced their fellows for 2012, and among a crowd of recipients that includes an economist, an astronomer, a geriatrician, and one lucky mandolinist, this year’s prize… Read more »
Teens turn to poetry The Independent reports that the UK’s Young Poets of the Year Award attracted record submissions this year. More than 7,000 eleven- to seventeen-year olds sent work to the competition, which… Read more »