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The Chronicle comes to the defense of humanities departments; the Top Forty Bad Books list stirs up controversy; an Australian writer is refused a visa because he is HIV positive; the National Book Critics Circle Award winners are announced; and other news.
A Colorado advocacy group calls for an Amazon boycott; an indie book collective in Paris starts an online bookselling portal; Hatchette Book Group reports a stellar sales year in 2009; Google signs an agreement to scan books for the Italian government; and other news.
Iranian poet Simin Behbahani was hit with a travel ban by her government; Samsung launches a new e-reader with Barnes & Noble content; Shenandoah turns sixty and moves online; a Florida library helps with the Haitian earthquake relief efforts; and other news.
The brackets have been announced for the annual Morning News Tournament of Books; the University of Texas acquired David Foster Wallace's archive; a new edition of Finnegan's Wake incorporates nine thousand changes; the New York Times spins off its Book Review for e-readers; and other news.
Four films based on books picked up Oscars; the Man Asian Literary Prize undergoes major restructuring; English professors are still the lowest salary earners on campus; Britain's new super-library trend; and other news.
FSG editor Lorin Stein is named editor of the Paris Review; Barnes & Noble plans to bundle printed books with e-books; Vanity Fair collects tributes to Barry Hannah; the iPad gets an official U.S. launch date; Jon Stewart to headline the 2010 BookExpo America; and other news.
Smashwords publishes an anthology to benefit Haiti; Penguin UK unveils "stunning" new iPad book technology; India may soon become the largest English-language book market; Paris takes action to protect its indie bookstore culture; and other news.
A literary club in Saudi Arabia is targeted by arsonists; books now outnumber games in the iTunes store; the recently debunked Hiroshima book sees an upturn in fortune and sales; Tim Burton acquires the film rights to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; and other news.
Mississippi writer Barry Hannah has died three days before a conference is to honor his life's work; a Chinese writer is placed under house arrest for attempting to attend a literary festival; a new biography attempts to label Kapuscinski as a fiction writer; the Lamda Literary Foundation launches an new online journal and blog community; and other news.
Agent Katherine Fausset answers questions from readers about the agent's role in submitting work to literary magazines and
