 Today's Feature Story:
The
Guadalajara Book Fair's guest nation, Argentina, will honor literary greats
and acknowledge Mexico as a haven for exiled writers during the Dirty War.
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 Discussion:
In
the New York Times, Felicia R. Lee asks if the 'new wave of African writers'
with an international appeal are drawing attention away from African-American
voices.
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 More News from PP:
In
the WSJ, Amazon's Russ Grandinetti "defended the company against
criticism that it is using its growing clout in electronic books to bully a
major publisher."
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 From the Archives:
Criticism
is drifting away from literature and, as a result, further away from readers,
said a trio of authors from Spain and the US at the Hay Festival Xalapa.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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