This Week on Books Direct -
16 December 2017
Here's a list of some great articles you may have
missed this week. Enjoy!
The Academy Of American Poets Announces Twelve Guest Editors For Its Poem-A-Day Series in 2018 by Academy of American Poets
The
Academy of American Poets is excited to announce that it has invited twelve new
guest editors to each curate a month of Poem-a-Day in 2018.
'Feminism' Is Merriam-Webster's Word Of The Year by Nick Romano for Entertainment
Weekly
Merriam-Webster revealed on Tuesday that “feminism”
is the dictionary’s word of the year, followed by nine other highly searched
for terms that were largely driven by the Trump administration: “complicit,”
“recuse,” “empathy,” “dotard,” “syzygy,” “gyro,” “federalism,” “hurricane,” and
“gaffe.”
2017- This Year In Books by Amazon
Check out the books that made the charts this past year.
'He Began To Eat Hermione's Family': Bot Tries To Write Harry Potter Book – And FailsIn Magic Ways by Alison Flood for The Guardian
After being fed all seven Potter tales, a predictive
keyboard has produced a tale that veers from almost genuine to gloriously
bonkers.
How A National Book Award Winner Overcame Writer's Block by Hayley for Goodreads
Robin
Benway, this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature shares
her own journey of discovery with Goodreads, one that took her from crippling
self-doubt to reclaiming the magic of storytelling.
What
can you do to make people want to watch YOUR Facebook videos? There’s one little tweak that’ll make your
Facebook videos a LOT more watchable.
Literary
Fiction In Crisis As Sales Drop Dramatically, Arts Council England Reports
by Alison Flood for The Guardian
New figures show that fewer UK writers earn enough to
live on, as ACE blames falling sales of literary fiction on the recession and
the rise of smartphones.
Four-Year-Old Prodigy Reads 100 Books In Just A Day by Dave Burke for The Mirror
Caleb Green's proud parents livestreamed his
incredible performance from their home in Chicago on Facebook.
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