St. John’s city council reverses earlier decision to cut arts grants by 50 per cent. (CBC)
- A fifth Hong Kong book publisher has gone missing. (Yahoo News)
- Adult colouring books aren’t just a 2015 craze: Here’s a look at their 1960s predecessors. (Open Culture)
- Employing digital analysis to track “sentimentality” in commercial and literary fiction. (New Republic)
- A list of the only Star Wars books that are officially considered canon eliminates more than 17,000 characters. (Good E-reader)
- Michigan museum is on a quest to find hand-numbered copies of Theodore Roethke’s debut collection. (The Guardian)
- Do all stories share the same skeleton? (The Atlantic)
- Young Barack Obama, literary critic. (The New York Review of Books)
- French startup plans to bring more excitement to romance ebooks. (The Digital Reader)
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