quote [ Literary analysts have long noticed the hand of another author in Shakespeare?s Henry VIII. Now a neural network has identified the specific scenes in question?and who actually wrote them. ]

quote [ John Milton?s Paradise Lost has been many things to many people ? a Christian epic, a comment on the English Civil War, the epitome of poetic ambiguity ? but it is first of all a pleasure to read. Drawing on sources as varied as Wordsworth, Hitchcock, and Conan Doyle, author Philip Pullman considers the sonic beauty and expert storytelling of Milton's masterpiece, and the influence it has had on his own work. ]

quote [ The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced last week that newly purchased ISBNs sold through Bowker will soon be sporting a 979 prefix. ]

quote [ A society dedicated to preserving the correct use of the apostrophe has shut down because "ignorance has won".  Retired journalist John Richards, 96, started the Apostrophe Protection Society in 2001 to make sure the ?much-abused? punctuation mark was being used correctly. But Mr Richards has now announced: ?With regret I have to announce that, after some 18 years, I have decided to close the Apostrophe Protection Society. ]

quote [ KUNA ? About halfway through a Q&A after Anthony Doerr?s seminar at the Idaho State Correctional Institution last month, someone asked if it was the first time he?d spoken to a group of people in prison. The Boise-based, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist replied it was, indeed, the first. ]

quote [ The author, known as the ?Lord of Misrule,? had the audacity to erect a maypole in Massachusetts. ]

quote [ Chatwin also had a notoriously liberal relationship with ?the truth.? This indeed is one of the aspects of Chatwin?s work with which Herzog feels the deepest kindred. In Chatwin?s ?non-fiction? works like In Patagonia and The Songlines, he was often related events that did not in fact happen, or embellishe danthropological details to make them fit his theories more closely. ]

quote [ STATESBORO ? Students at Georgia Southern University burned a book, written by a New York Times contributor, after a Q&A session at her lecture became heated. ]

quote [ The students at St. Edward Catholic School in Nashville can no longer check out the popular Harry Potter book series from their school's library. ]