Book Links: 12-year-old #1000BlackGirlBooks founder to write a book; Marie Kondo’s former agent looks to clean up

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12-year-old Marley Dias, founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks project, to pen her own book. (The Cut)
Literary agent who brought Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up to the U.S. alleges he was never paid. (New York Post)
Bloomsbury to release new Harry Potter editions for the series’s 20th anniversary. (MashReads)
Literary agents issue call for work by Muslim writers. (Melville House)
A map of immigrant poets. (My Poetic Side)
On the last reading of Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi before he is barred from the U.S. (Los Angeles Times)
A look at the Library of Congress’s basement card catalog. (Atlas Obscura)
Some of J.K. Rowling’s best Twitter takedowns. (BookRiot)
A brief history of writing as a paying profession. (New Republic)
Read an excerpt from Heather O’Neill’s forthcoming novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel. (CBC Books)

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