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Kansas bookseller writes open letter asking Jeff Bezos to level the playing field
False claims that the UK executed gay men result in cancellation of Naomi Wolf’s latest book
Phillip Roth left a substantial part of his estate to the Newark Public Library
Karl Ove Knausgaard to contribute to the future library
A complaint describing a children’s book on potty training as “filth” helps it become a bestseller
Top 10 quotes for Patricia Highsmith’s soon-to-be-released diaries
BBC announces refreshingly contemporary “100 Novels That Shaped Our World”
Herman, this isn’t Polynesia; there are rules
Dame Judi Dench is funding a museum’s £650,000 bid for a Charlotte Bronte manuscript
Dublin wants to repatriate James Joyce’s bones

Elizabeth Bishop’s Key West house purchased to be preserved
Amazon slashing orders to publishers just in time for the holidays
Cancel culture cited in tepid sales of Mark Halperin’s new book
New book argues that Englishwomen were writing literature as far back as the eighth century
“Climate strike” is chosen as 2019’s word of the year
BBC announces refreshingly contemporary “100 Novels That Shaped Our World”
Somehow more shakeups at Deadspin after everybody left