- The Obamas filled their shopping cart with Franzen, Rushdie, and Kinney on annual Small Business Saturday book-buying binge. (CNN)
- Lack of titles, preference for print blamed for low levels of ebook borrowing in U.S. libraries. (Publishers Weekly)
- Meanwhile, ebook popularity grows in the U.K., is blamed for demise of physical book publishers. (Independent)
- Margaret Atwood on her dream dinner guests, favourite short stories, and the books that make her cry. (Spoiler: she’s an “intermittent sniffler.”) (The New York Times)
- Community stands behind young transgender girl after school cancels planned reading of book meant to introduce her gender identity to classmates. (BuzzFeed)
- Kobe Bryant, basketball’s new poet laureate. (The Players’ Tribune)
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