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  1. Cormac McCarthy auctioning off typewriter to benefit Santa Fe Institute http://bit.ly/6DMsmu
  2. Book industry laments the End of The Oprah Winfrey Show http://bit.ly/5wyg8N
  3. Judge preliminarily approves revised Google Book Settlement http://bit.ly/5e9QWi
  4. Biopic shows Enid Blyton as cruel, vindictive and a terrible mother http://bit.ly/4aP5jf
  5. Daniel Handler, who writes the bestselling Lemony Snicket books, has moved from HarperCollins to Little, Brown. http://bit.ly/1AAwOi
  6. Study finds texting lingo doesn't turn students into poor spellers. http://bit.ly/2CmTL7
  7. Stephen King has written a new poem for Playboy magazine called "The Bone Church." http://bit.ly/1GLuEY
  8. Authors Neil Gaiman (#50), JK Rowling (#114) on list of the 200 most listed twitter users. http://bit.ly/41tbA (via @books)
  9. 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
  10. Mexico's Secret Service: Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Cuban spy http://bit.ly/2CC4UD
  11. Author Patricia Cornwell is suing her financial advisors and accountants for negligence - they lost her $40 million http://bit.ly/ZDyRf
  12. Furious row at Frankfort Book Fair may lead to EU being dropped from Google Book Settlement. http://bit.ly/4DIvuf
  13. RT @internet Twitter Lists make Twitter more useful http://bit.ly/3UK9TK
  14. A software program which is used to detect plagiarism has uncovered a play likely co-authored by William Shakespeare http://bit.ly/1kvM2p
  15. Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl books, has taken on the task of continuing Douglas Adams' Hitchiker's series http://bit.ly/15ol9i
  16. Recent Emmy-winning young female writer loses her Mad Men job http://bit.ly/OP61m
  17. 160 years late, Edgar Allan Poe has finally been properly gotten a proper burial. http://bit.ly/hxbP2
  18. The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to a little know author, Herta Muller. http://bit.ly/OXdK0
  19. Lord Byron’s letters reveal affair & criticism of fellow writers. Byron referred to William Wordsworth as "Turdsworth" http://bit.ly/1B5ngV
  20. 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