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Staples stores will soon sell the Kindle; Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize; Stephen King is America's favorite author; the twenty-seventh annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering; and other news.
Chinese dissident writer and literary critic Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, talks about freedom of expression in China. This video was produced before Liu was sentenced to eleven years in a Chinese prison in December 2008.
CreateSpace announces a partnership with the Library of Congress; Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins the Nobel Prize for Literature; a newly discovered Ted Hughes poem addresses Sylvia Plath's suicide; a librarian spends two years tracking down a book thief and finally gets his man; and other news.
The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival kicks off in Newark, New Jersey, tomorrow; Borders' corporate headquarters in Michigan is up for sale; the inaugural John Updike Society conference takes place in Pennsylvania; writing by hand helps us think better; and other news.
Eva Talmadge and Justin Taylor discuss their new book, The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos From Bookworms Worldwide, which will be published next week by HarperPerennial.
A staged reading of Elizabeth Bishop's letters in New York City tonight; two e-books cost more than their hardcover counterparts; Jonathan Franzen's glasses are stolen off his face, then recovered; why we love fiction; and other news.
The Hamilton Museum of Wood Type, located in the small town of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, houses 1.5 million pieces of wood type. Justine Nagan, the director of the documentary film Typeface, which premiered earlier this year, visited the museum as part of her investigation into our culture's transition from analog to digital.
Barnes & Noble launches a DIY digital publishing platform; U.K. poet marks transit strike in verse; Philip Larkin's letters reveal lover as muse; the politics and sport behind book awards; and other news.
In this promotional video directed by Roman Coppola, actor Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited) introduces the New Yorker's new app for the iPad.
Granta's announces a list of the best young Spanish-language novelists; the wrong version of Freedom is published in the U.K.; Toronto's giant poetry mural for human rights; Random House hires Gourmet's former editor-in-chief; and other news.
