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Salman Rushdie presented his book Knife at El Ateneo Library, in Madrid on May 20, 2024. Cesar Luis de Luca/Picture alliance/Getty Images hide caption
Tom Robbins, at a 2014 reading of his memoir Tibetan Peach Pie at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing in Beaverton, Ore. Alex Milan Tracy/AP hide caption
Kids' books author Mac Barnett is the new National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Chris Black/Library of Congress hide caption
What Mac Barnett has planned as the new LOC ambassador for young people's literature
'Coming to New York' stories are alive and well in these two new books
Brittany Newell's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Joyland and Playgirl. Shane Thomas/Macmillan hide caption
A pro dominatrix and novelist says empathy, curiosity and bravery are key to both jobs
The popular fantasy author has been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct. Evan Agostini/AP hide caption
Reid Hoffman speaks onstage during The AI Optimist Club at WIRED Celebrates 30th Anniversary on Dec. 5, 2023, in San Francisco. Kimberly White/Getty Images for WIRED hide caption
LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman discusses his new book 'Superagency' on the future of AI
Fireworks light up the sky over Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on Feb. 11, 2024. Louise Delmotte/AP hide caption
A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history
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Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform that exculsively supports local bookstores
'The First State of Being' and 'Chooch Helped' win top children’s book awards
Sarah Cornell's headstone, Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River, Mass. Melissa Gray/NPR hide caption
One man talks to another man on March 8, 2020, through a makeshift barricade wall built to control entry and exit to a residential compound in Wuhan, Hubei, China. /Getty Images hide caption
The great audiobook playback debate: Do you listen at regular speed or do you crank it up? Angela Hsieh/NPR hide caption
Author Hajar Yazdiha (left) wrote about Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy in her book, The Struggle for the People's King (right). PR Agency hide caption
Jules Feiffer at work on proof sheets from his first book, Sick, Sick, Sick in New York in 1958. Underwood Archives/Getty Images hide caption
Author Neil Gaiman at an event for Audible celebrating The Sandman: Act III in 2022. Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Audible hide caption
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New AI licensing platform aims to help authors keep control over their books
Previously unknown poems show Woolf as a fun aunt. She's pictured above in 1902. George C. Beresford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption