PBS sues LeVar Burton over his use of the Reading Rainbow brand. (HuffPost) Octavia Butler's work is being adapted for TV for the first time ever. (Flavorwire) ...and a look at Butler's unrealized plans for her Earthseed series. (Electric Lit) ... Read More »

Judith Jones, editor of Julia Child and shepherd of The Diary of Anne Frank, dies at 93. (The New York Times) Details revealed about Bernie Sanders's forthcoming YA book. (Bustle) Maine farm where E.B. White wrote Charlotte's Web ... Read More »

BookNet Canada reports print sales have fallen 2.7 per cent in the first half of 2017. (The Digital Reader) Publishers say they won't be signing any book deals with O.J. Simpson. (TMZ) Barnes & Noble ... Read More »

Emma Watson and Margaret Atwood in conversation about The Handmaid's Tale. (Entertainment Weekly) This man claims Penguin Random House and Chelsea Clinton stole his children's book idea. (Melville House) George Eliot's Middlemarch has been adapted into a modern-day web ... Read More »