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An anonymous reader shares this report from the Washington Post:
Steve Jobs never lived to be an old wise man.
But running Apple and Pixar, tumbling and thriving, earned him a lot of wisdom in his 56 years. Now, a small group of his family, friends …
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Late Tuesday night, the Missouri House of Representatives voted for a state operating budget with a $0 line for public libraries. While the budget still needs to work its way through the Senate and …
Publisher pays tribute to ‘genius’ who was an ‘inspirational leader’Peter Usborne, the founder of the children’s books publisher Usborne and the co-founder of Private Eye magazine, has died aged 85, the publisher has announced.He died “unexpectedly but…
Founded by two translators – one American, one British – the Salt initiative will provide mentorships, funding and a south Asia-focused literary translation schoolA new project to help bring the “extraordinarily rich” literature of south Asia to Englis…
Amsterdam court dismisses French author’s complaint against film that shows him having sex with young womenA Dutch art collective can release an experimental erotic film showing the French novelist Michel Houellebecq having sex with young women in spit…
The Paddington Bear Experience, a family-friendly show based on Michael Bond’s character, will be at the ex-GLC building on the South BankThe world of Michael Bond’s irrepressible, marmalade-loving bear Paddington is to be re-created for an immersive t…
INCEST monster Josef Fritzl claims he is a “good person” who gets hundreds of fan letters.
The Austrian fiend locked daughter Elisabeth in a cellar for 24 years where he abused her as a sex slave and fathered seven children with her.
AFPJosef Fri…
Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude tops list of those most translated into 10 languages this century ahead of Don Quixote creatorThe solitary denizens of Macondo appear to have proved too much for a famously insane knight errant, according to rese…
Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have passages edited by sensitivity editors for latest HarperCollins editionsSeveral Agatha Christie novels have been edited to remove potentially offensive language, including insults and references to ethnicity.Poiro…
Harlan Coben’s “I Will Find You” is the top national fiction bestseller, as reported by Publishers Weekly.