Bookmarks (negation editon): the book collector who couldn’t read, the bestselling author who doesn’t exist, and the book prize judge who quit

Bookmarks, Bookstores, Libraries

April 7, 2008 | 10:24 AM | By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links:

79-year-old book collector finally learns to read (Houston Chronicle)
A bestselling novel by a soap opera character (The New York Times)
Lily Allen drops out of Orange Prize jury (BBC)
The (Stephen) King family live onstage (Washington Post)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson “ditching history for celebrity” (Telegraph)
30 years of Virago (The Guardian)
Bonus tabloid link: Man charged with preying on kids in Toronto bookstores and libraries (Toronto Sun)

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