This week: Questions remain about Stan Lee's final days, South Korean booksellers struggle to survive, biographer Ron Chernow will headline the White House Correspondents dinner next year, a former Librarian of Congress dies, Glamour magazine e

November 17, 2018

Nov 19th, 2018 29m 41s

This week: researchers rediscover Bram Stoker’s lost reference materials, J.K. Rowling takes her former assistant to court, Comics legend Stan Lee passes away, Russia censors LGBT books, the National Book Awards were handed out, Toxic is the OE

November 3, 2018

Nov 4th, 2018 29m 7s

This week: Dark Horse Comics is going to the movies, the CBC gives out diversity awards, a famous author gave a boost to library advocacy, bookseller WH Smith bought its way into airports, police are using AI to study writings for lies, support

October 27, 2018

Oct 28th, 2018 28m 37s

This week: the Hurston/Wright prize started a week of award news, the World’s Biggest Book sale goes to Dubai, an Iowa man burns library books to protest Pride, PBS named the Great American Read, transgender literature is on the rise, the Kirku

October 20, 2018

Oct 21st, 2018 29m 18s

This week: Stephen Hawking warns of superhumans in his final book, a Brazilian presidential candidate benefits from fake news, how #MeToo influences the literary industry, the Man Booker Prize was announced, children’s mental health gets help f

October 13, 2018

Oct 15th, 2018 26m 18s

This week: Contemplating the potential unionziation of comics creators after #metoo and #timesup, the Swedish Academy elected two new members in planning for next year’s Nobel, Brazil’s National Museum prepares to rebuild, the PEN/Pinter prize

September 29, 2018

Oct 4th, 2018 27m 45s

This week: it’s Banned Books Week and the Guardian takes notice, Penguin Random House is notingb the week in partnershing with We Need Diverse Books, the reasons comics get banned, the Kirkus Prize nominees are announced, the judge’s copy of a

September 22, 2018

Sep 23rd, 2018 27m 54s

This week: teachers are using YA novels to teach #MeToo, Tronc newspapers have a second bidder, a nominee withdraws from the alt Nobel, CRS reports go online, the New York Review of Books fires its editor, Barnes & Noble opens a new, smaller st

September 15, 2018

Sep 16th, 2018 28m 10s

This week: the EU Copyright law is back in the news, Google wants to kill URLs, several publishers are staffing up this year, a Florence bookstore is looking for a new owner, Time’s new owner is shifting staff, the EU preliminarily passed its c

September 8, 2018

Sep 9th, 2018 23m 47s

This week: California passes net neutrality, the "Village Voice" goes quiet, theatre performers are supporting Banned Books Week, the New Yorker Festival caused trouble with its guest list, J.D. Salinger’s books are being reprinted, Waterstones

September 1, 2018

Sep 4th, 2018 26m 1s

This week: a former Marvel boss is launching a new comics publisher, crowdsourcing a new CEO for Barnes & Noble, Buzzfeed News is testing a membership program, Barnes & Noble is sued by their last CEO, the Alternative Nobel Prize shortlist is a

August 18, 2018

Aug 19th, 2018 26m 16s

This week: VS Naipaul leaves a difficult legacy, a disgraced former librarian is profiting off taxpayers, a library shut down 3D printers over guns, printed book sales outpace all other physical media, the FCC (maybe) goes after Alex Jones, a p

August 11, 2018

Aug 13th, 2018 27m 34s

This week: Charges were dropped against a Malaysian cartoonist, Indie bookstores are helping register voters, Infowars is banned from top social sites, a famous novel is being adapted for TV, lost poetry from the 1860s is being published, publi

August 4, 2018

Aug 6th, 2018 24m 25s

This week: Amazon is producing a TV series of "Lord of the Rings," a Harlem library won Malcom X's unpublished work at auction, Strand Magazine will publish unseen work by Ernest Hemingway, Bob Woodward got unofficial access to most of the Whit

July 28, 2018

Jul 30th, 2018 25m 28s

This week: Forbes apologizes for an article that suggested closing public libraries, librarians responded in force that someone needs to do some research, the publisher of the New York Daily News cut its staff, President Trump promoted a Fox Ne

July 21, 2018

Jul 23rd, 2018 24m 8s

This week: Authors are taking a unique approach to writing boys, there’s a new writer-in-residence program in Boston, sharing your #MeToo story may help your appeal, a map of the Hundred Acre Wood is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the

July 14, 2018

Jul 15th, 2018 24m 52s

This week: Arya says goodbye to Westeros, "The English Patient" wins the Golden Man Booker, films based on books do better than original content, an author calls for more support from the UK Parliament, young readers are reading poetry, ancient

July 7, 2018

Jul 9th, 2018 25m 27s

This week: the Man Booker prize celebrates 50 years, a French bookseller is reproducing classical manuscripts, leisure reading is declining in the U.S., Barnes & Noble fires its CEO, a lost message from King Charles I is found, a bookstore says

June 23, 2018

Jun 25th, 2018 24m 26s

This week: an author is trying to trademark “Dragon Slayer,” the inaugural Excellence in Graphic Lit Awards were handed out, Sarah Jessica Parker has a book imprint, the Carnegie medal winner has a problem with children’s book vocabulary, the O

June 16, 2018

Jun 18th, 2018 24m 57s

This week: a book set a record on the Unbound crowdfunding site, a Portland feminist bookstore is closing, Amazon shut down a Kindle Unlimited abuser, Europe may change what you see online, universities are cancelling subscriptions with big pub

June 2, 2018

Jun 3rd, 2018 27m 8s

This week: the LA Times website goes dark in Europe, the Nobel Prize in Literature might not return in 2019, there’s someone to fear in the copyright infringement game, a Russian journalist staged his own death, a Baltimore museum closes and jo

May 26, 2018

May 28th, 2018 23m 6s

This week: a scholar has uncovered surprising news on the King James Bible, publishers are having a good year so far according to sales figures, Google may no longer condemn evil, Philip Roth died at age 85, a judge blocked President Trump from

May 19, 2018

May 22nd, 2018 29m 27s

This week: a Texas library can’t collect on $11 million in fines, indie bookstores are embracing romance, Heart Magazines launches a data studio, the British Book Awards are announced, the U.S. Senate votes on net neutrality, there’s nothing to

May 12, 2018

May 16th, 2018 26m 2s

This week: Open Access is looking past publishers, Seattle and Amazon collide, the New York Times debuts a new web story format, Ian McEwan can’t help you get a good grade, the word ‘cocky’ has been trademarked, Vermont Life magazine is shuttin

May 5, 2018

May 7th, 2018 27m 34s

This week: The Smithsonian has a robot that speaks Swahili, federal prisons make it harder for prisoners to get books, freelancers win big in court, fake books are being used to launder money, the Anna Dewdney prize was handed out, there won’t