In the News: Ancient Words, Fourteen Damns

Powell’s Books has reported a fifteen-per-cent increase since September in customers looking to sell used books for cash.

The West Hollywood outpost of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered book store A Different Light will close in the spring.

Scientists have developed an algorithm to identify the oldest words in the English language, such as “I” and “who”; words most likely to go extinct include “squeeze” and “guts.”

Despite the recession, book sales are up in Canada for January and February.

“Netherland,” by Joseph O’Neill, is the winner of this year’s PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

A pay freeze has gone into effect at the headquarters of Borders U.K.

According to the writer Mark Feeney, Presidential libraries should be a thing of the past: “There are 13 presidential libraries in all…Such an unlucky number would be a good place to stop.”

Six books are in the running to receive the U.K.’s inaugural Festival of Ideas Book Prize, which honors work that “presents new, important and challenging ideas, which is rigorously argued, and which is engaging and accessible.”

The Marathi author Bhalchandra Nemade, speaking at the University of Pune, in India, said, “Unless we return to our roots and revive our tradition, we cannot produce world class literature as we used to before the British colonized us.”

Margaret Atwood has fully reversed her decision not to participate in this week’s Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature and will be interviewed in person, as well as participate in a censorship forum that was originally inspired by her withdrawal.

A Georgia school district will not ban the novel “My Brother Sam Is Dead,” which was under review for containing, among other things, fourteen instances of the word “damn.”
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