Thursday, June 11, 2015

The Roundup with PW

From Farm Fields to Poet Laureate: The Library of Congress is announcing today that Juan Felipe Herrera, a son of migrant farmworkers whose writing fuses wide-ranging experimentalism with reflections on Mexican-American identity, will be the next poet laureate.

Was the New Fifty Shades Book Stolen?: Police have launched an investigation after Random House discovered that a copy of 'Grey' had gone missing on Tuesday, the BBC reports.

Anti-Amazon Campaign Releases Video: The group has created a video calling on the company’s shareholders to learn the “full story” of how warehouse workers are treated, timed to coincide with the company’s annual general meeting.

Elsevier Cracks Down on Piracy: The academic publishing company has filed a complaint at a New York District Court, hoping to shut down the Library Genesis project and the SciHub.org search engine.

Hogwarts Hops the Pond: J.K. Rowling reveals a U.S. version of the wizards' school.


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