- Henry Holt will still publish Bill O’Reilly’s memoir, despite his dismissal from Fox News. (Publishers Weekly)
- Seven-year-old who tweets for peace in Syria lands book deal with Simon & Schuster. (Melville House)
- HBO names leads in adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. (BookRiot)
- “Ancientbiotics” team mines medieval books for medical insights. (Heritage Daily)
- Complaints about loud sex among the literary gems in diaries of Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, and Gustave Flaubert up for auction. (The Guardian)
- The Icelandic publishing house that burns its unsold books. (Melville House)
- Listen to a recreation of what the Proto-Indo-European language might have sounded like. (Open Culture)
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