November 5, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 254 (30-Oct to 5-Nov)

1. Green wins £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

2. Scribe staffers get ‘reading day’ for 1000-page Russian epic

3. A woman might go to jail for forgetting to return library books

4. Jean-Paul Dubois Wins the 2019 Prix Goncourt for Novel Set in a Canadian Prison

5. Man ‘became excited,’ lost consciousness while listening to audiobook prior to crash

October 29, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 253 (23-Oct to 29-Oct)

1. Fifth chapter of oldest ‘Tale of Genji’ copy found in Tokyo

2. On 60th anniversary, Asterix comics finally get a female hero

3. Prince’s memoir publication

4. Authors push for more tax-free literary prizes

5. Giller Prize 6 ebook shortlist has been announced

October 22, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 252 (16-Oct to 22-Oct)

1.  Harold Bloom, author and literary critic, dies at age 89

2.  Booker Prize 2019 Goes to Two: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo

3. Online bookstores can be sued if they are not accessible for blind people

4. Fiona Benson wins Forward prize with Greek myth poems for #MeToo age

5. Swedish Academy defends Peter Handke’s controversial Nobel win

October 15, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 251 (9-Oct to 15-Oct)

1. Rihanna Is Publishing Her First Visual Autobiography

2.  The Nobel Prizes in Literature for 2018 and 2019

3. Tbilisi Named UNESCO’s World Book Capital for 2021

 

4.  American Literary Translators Name 2019 Shortlists in Poetry and Prose

5. Not the Booker prize 2019: Lara Williams wins with Supper Club

October 8, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 250 (2-Oct to 8-Oct)

1. US prisons banning thousands of books ‘on arbitrary grounds’

2. Lucy Ellmann’s long sentence leads to Goldsmiths shortlist

3. Lego Publishing and Ameet to launch new publishing imprint Lego Books

4. Me Before You Author Has Been Accused Of Publishing A Novel With “Alarming Similarities” To Another Author’s Book

5. Michelle Obama publishing companion journal to Becoming 

 

October 1, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 249 (25-Sep to 1-Oct)

1. $625,000 ‘genius grants’ go to Ocean Vuong and six other writers

2. Kokila to Publish the Dalai Lama’s First Picture Book

3. Rakuten Viber Adds a Short Story Feature to its Chat App

4. Writer and Poker Lover Al Alvarez dies

5. Asterix on the New Two-Euro Coin

September 24, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 248 (18-Sep to 24-Sep)

1. Hundreds of authors protest after Kamila Shamsie’s book award is revoked

2. A comic written for the visually impaired

3. Two penguins interned at American publishing company Penguin Random House

4. How Reese Witherspoon became the new high priestess of book clubs

5. Canadian author Graeme Gibson dies aged 85

September 17, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 247 (11-Sep to 17-Sep)

1. Ian McEwan announces surprise Brexit satire, The Cockroach

2. Turkish author Ahmet Altan jailed for life nominated for £50000 book award

3. Picture book about trans child wins major prize

4. The British Academy Announces the 2019 Al-Rodhan Prize Shortlist

 

 

 

 

 

September 10, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 246 (4-Sep to 10-Sep)

1. Author Kiran Nagarkar passes away at 77 in Mumbai

2. Paul McCartney goes from rock-star to children’s book author

3. Google Play is now renting ebooks

4. Publishers announce new Elena Ferrante novel out in November

5. JCB Prize for Literature 2019: Debutants and first novels dominate the longlist

 

September 3, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 245 (28-Aug to 3-Sep)

1. The Ohio State University Seeks to Trademark ‘The’

2. Jhumpa Lahiri is named director of the creative writing program at Princeton University

 

3. Knopf Goes Back to Print with Morrison

4. Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature

5. Keanu Reeves Is Doing a New Thing: Publishing Books