- Scott Chantler named Canada’s first university cartoonist-in-residence. (Maclean’s)
- Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer pulled from high schools in Florida for “strong language and sexual content.” (CBC Books)
- John Hopkins University study shows spelling uses more parts of the brain than originally thought. (The Guardian)
- Google Creative Lab launches digital bookstore for books that are unprintable by nature. (GalleyCat)
- U.K. authors take to parliament to petition library funding cuts. (The Guardian)
- Barnes & Noble offers service to put readers into children’s books. (Publishing Perspectives)
- How poet Richard Siken inadvertently amassed a fan-fiction following. (The Awl)
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