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  1. Daniel Handler, who writes the bestselling Lemony Snicket books, has moved from HarperCollins to Little, Brown. http://bit.ly/1AAwOi
  2. Study finds texting lingo doesn't turn students into poor spellers. http://bit.ly/2CmTL7
  3. Stephen King has written a new poem for Playboy magazine called "The Bone Church." http://bit.ly/1GLuEY
  4. Authors Neil Gaiman (#50), JK Rowling (#114) on list of the 200 most listed twitter users. http://bit.ly/41tbA (via @books)
  5. The Kennedy Library in Boston will be getting copies of some of Ernest Hemingway's papers from the government of Cuba. http://bit.ly/2509wi
  6. Mexico's Secret Service: Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Cuban spy http://bit.ly/2CC4UD
  7. Author Patricia Cornwell is suing her financial advisors and accountants for negligence - they lost her $40 million http://bit.ly/ZDyRf
  8. Furious row at Frankfort Book Fair may lead to EU being dropped from Google Book Settlement. http://bit.ly/4DIvuf
  9. RT @internet Twitter Lists make Twitter more useful http://bit.ly/3UK9TK
  10. A software program which is used to detect plagiarism has uncovered a play likely co-authored by William Shakespeare http://bit.ly/1kvM2p
  11. Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl books, has taken on the task of continuing Douglas Adams' Hitchiker's series http://bit.ly/15ol9i
  12. Recent Emmy-winning young female writer loses her Mad Men job http://bit.ly/OP61m
  13. 160 years late, Edgar Allan Poe has finally been properly gotten a proper burial. http://bit.ly/hxbP2
  14. The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to a little know author, Herta Muller. http://bit.ly/OXdK0
  15. Lord Byron’s letters reveal affair & criticism of fellow writers. Byron referred to William Wordsworth as "Turdsworth" http://bit.ly/1B5ngV
  16. Ian Frazier has won the Thurber Prize for for American Humor. Frazier is the first two-time winner of the award. http://bit.ly/cSRM5
  17. Nobel Prize for Literature to Be Live Webcast http://bit.ly/44RQa1
  18. Danielle Steel's former assistant admits she embezzled from employer for years http://bit.ly/3j8De
  19. J.K. Rowling has finally joined Twitter @jk_rowling but she warns that she won't be tweeting very often. http://bit.ly/uPrn0
  20. William Safire, Nixon speechwriter and New York Times columnist, Is dead at 79 http://bit.ly/4kHY7B