Friday, May 24, 2013

Book News: Chinua Achebe's Funeral, Kindle Worlds - New Yorker (blog)

May 24, 2013

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and other dignitaries attended Chinua Achebe’s funeral.

A judge has ruled against three Borders gift-card holders who wanted to file a class-action lawsuit over unredeemed balances, Which have a combined worth of over two hundred and ten million dollars across nearly eighteen million cards.

Katherine Boo has won the New York Public Library’s 2013 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism for “Behind the Beautiful Forevers.”

Amazon will allow authors of fan fiction to sell Their work through a new platform called Kindle Worlds.

Filipino officials are not pleased with Dan Brown’s description of Manila as “the gates of hell” in his new novel “Inferno.” (Read Joan Acocella on Dan Brown and Dante.)

The Los Angeles Review of Books has published its first print edition.

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