Literally This Week

This week: Questions remain about Stan Lee's final days, South Korean booksellers struggle to survive, biographer Ron Chernow will headline the White House Correspondents dinner next year, a former Librarian of Congress dies, Glamour magazine ends its print run, Michelle Obama’s book is B&N’s bestseller of the year, and China bans a novelist. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! This podcast is also brought to you by Photolemur. Take advantage of their Black Friday deal and save 83% off the family license. Go to https://photolemur.sjv.io/aois21 now! Struggling to find a gift for a loved one? Why not #GiveABook. We’re partnering with Walls of Books in Washington, DC, once again for a month full of events and opportunities for you to find a present for someone special. Visit www.wallsofbooksdc.com for more information. Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: researchers rediscover Bram Stoker’s lost reference materials, J.K. Rowling takes her former assistant to court, Comics legend Stan Lee passes away, Russia censors LGBT books, the National Book Awards were handed out, Toxic is the OED word of the year, and Tanzania holds two journalists for questioning. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! This podcast is also brought to you by Target. Save today on books, movies, and video games. Visit http://goto.target.com/aois21. It is also sponsored by Small Business Saturday. Don’t forget to visit your local small businesses next Saturday as you start your holiday shopping. Visit americanexpress.com/shopsmall to find out hot to participate and Shop Small! Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: Dark Horse Comics is going to the movies, the CBC gives out diversity awards, a famous author gave a boost to library advocacy, bookseller WH Smith bought its way into airports, police are using AI to study writings for lies, supporters bolster an Iowa library after an act of hatred, and the UK prepares to pick a new poet laureate. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! This podcast is also brought to you by DC Podfest. Join us at SpacesArlington at the Artisphere for a full day of podcasting tips and tricks. Tickets still available and you’ll even find aois21 publisher Keith F. Shovlin offering one-on-one counseling. Visit www.DCpodfest.com for more information. It is also sponsored by Photolemur. Between now and November 6, save 30% on Photolemur 3 and make your photos better through artificial intelligence. Visit https://photolemur.sjv.io/aois21 today! Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: the Hurston/Wright prize started a week of award news, the World’s Biggest Book sale goes to Dubai, an Iowa man burns library books to protest Pride, PBS named the Great American Read, transgender literature is on the rise, the Kirkus Prize winners were announced, and Ireland votes to legalize blasphemy. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! This podcast is also brought to you by DC Podfest. Join us at SpacesArlington at the Artisphere for a full day of podcasting tips and tricks. Tickets still available and you’ll even find aois21 publisher Keith F. Shovlin offering one-on-one counseling. Visit www.DCpodfest.com for more information. It is also sponsored by Simplilearn. Sign up today get your certification in digital marketing, software specializations and more. Go to https://simplilearn.sjv.io/aois21 and learn something new. Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: Stephen Hawking warns of superhumans in his final book, a Brazilian presidential candidate benefits from fake news, how #MeToo influences the literary industry, the Man Booker Prize was announced, children’s mental health gets help from picture books, the creator of the Little Free Library has died, and Iceland’s book-giving tradition is under threat. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! This podcast is also brought to you by the Blue Ridge Writers 2018 Book and Arts Fair! Join us and 35 local authors on Saturday, October 27th at the CitySpace in Downtown Charlottesville, Va, for a day of readings, music, and fun. Visit www.BlueRidgeWriters.org or www.events.aois21.com for more information! It is also sponsored by Bookbyte. Sell your used textbooks or get new or used textbooks cheap. Visit Bookbyte today and save using our link https://bookbyte.pxf.io/aois21! Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: Contemplating the potential unionziation of comics creators after #metoo and #timesup, the Swedish Academy elected two new members in planning for next year’s Nobel, Brazil’s National Museum prepares to rebuild, the PEN/Pinter prize awarding came with a plea for authors to call out lies, HarperCollins took a big step toward Spanish-language literature, the Alternative Nobel is announced, and Marvel fires an author over online harassment. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! Additional support is provided by the Blue Ridge Writers 2018 Book and Arts Fair! Join us and 35 local authors on Saturday, October 27th at the CitySpace in downtown Charlottesville, Va, for a day of readings, music, and fun. Visit www.BlueRidgeWriters.org or www.events.aois21.com for more information! It is also sponsored by Photolemur, photo editing made easy. Version 3.0 is now out with this AI directed photo editor and you can download it for free. Just visit https://photolemur.sjv.io/aois21 today! Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: it’s Banned Books Week and the Guardian takes notice, Penguin Random House is notingb the week in partnershing with We Need Diverse Books, the reasons comics get banned, the Kirkus Prize nominees are announced, the judge’s copy of a banned book is going on the auction block, the Nobel Prize for Literature might not return next year, and the founder of the World Wide Web has charted a new path forward. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! This podcast is also brought to you by the 12th Annual Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival, October 5th-6th in Frostburg, Md. For more information, visit www.frostburg.edu/cla/indie-lit-festival. It is also sponsored by the Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia’s premiere book event. Held at George Mason University and the surrounding area from October 10th-13th, it will feature panel discussions, live readings and a book fair. Visit www.fallforthebook.org for more information. Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: teachers are using YA novels to teach #MeToo, Tronc newspapers have a second bidder, a nominee withdraws from the alt Nobel, CRS reports go online, the New York Review of Books fires its editor, Barnes & Noble opens a new, smaller store, and the Oxford English Dictionary wants to learn new slang. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! This podcast is also brought to you by the 12th Annual Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival, October 5th-6th in Frostburg, Md. For more information, visit www.frostburg.edu/cla/indie-lit-festival. It is also sponsored by the Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia’s premiere book event. Held at George Mason University and the surrounding area from October 10th-13th, it will feature panel discussions, live readings and a book fair. Visit www.fallforthebook.org for more information. Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: the EU Copyright law is back in the news, Google wants to kill URLs, several publishers are staffing up this year, a Florence bookstore is looking for a new owner, Time’s new owner is shifting staff, the EU preliminarily passed its copyright reform, and French bookstores are up in arms over a prize winner. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! This podcast is also brought to you by the 12th Annual Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival, October 5th-6th in Frostburg, Md. For more information, visit www.frostburg.edu/cla/indie-lit-festival. It is also sponsored by the Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia’s premiere book event. Held at George Mason University and the surrounding area from October 10th-13th, it will feature panel discussions, live readings and a book fair. Visit fallforthebook.org for more information. Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: California passes net neutrality, the "Village Voice" goes quiet, theatre performers are supporting Banned Books Week, the New Yorker Festival caused trouble with its guest list, J.D. Salinger’s books are being reprinted, Waterstones bought competitor Foyles, and digitization is all that is left of items lost in the Brazil’s National Museum fire. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! Additional support is provided by Bookbyte. Buy and sell used textbooks today at https://bit.ly/2OOexMV. This podcast is also brought to you by the stage play of "Interlude to Sentimental Me!" the original poetry by aois21 Creative Michael B. Judkins. Tickets start at just $15 with discounts for youth and seniors. Both performances will be at Rosemont Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, PA. Get your tickets today from www.aois21.com/creatives/judkins/. Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: a former Marvel boss is launching a new comics publisher, crowdsourcing a new CEO for Barnes & Noble, Buzzfeed News is testing a membership program, Barnes & Noble is sued by their last CEO, the Alternative Nobel Prize shortlist is announced, another author was selected to contribute a book to posterity, and a Russian news channel is losing funding after 3 journalists are killed. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! Additional support is also provided by Bookbyte. Buy and sell used textbooks today at Bookbyte.com. Also by Photolemur, the world’s first photo editing AI software. Download today at Photolemur.com. And by Simplilearn, get certified today in digital marketing, project management, IT Security, and more! Enroll at Simplilearn.com. This podcast is also brought to you by the stage play of Interlude to Sentimental Me!, the original poetry by aois21 Creative Michael B. Judkins. Tickets start at just $15 with discounts for youth and seniors. Both performances will be at Rosemont Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, PA. Get your tickets from EventBrite today! Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: VS Naipaul leaves a difficult legacy, a disgraced former librarian is profiting off taxpayers, a library shut down 3D printers over guns, printed book sales outpace all other physical media, the FCC (maybe) goes after Alex Jones, a publisher is refusing to bow to President Trump’s demands, and elections in Mali are marred by internet blockages. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! Additional support is provided by Bookbyte. Buy and sell used textbooks today at Bookbyte (https://bit.ly/2OOexMV). This podcast is also brought to you by the stage play of Interlude to Sentimental Me!, the original poetry by aois21 Creative Michael B. Judkins. Tickets start at just $15 with discounts for youth and seniors. Both performances will be at Rosemont Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, PA. Get your tickets from EventBrite today at www.aois21.com/creatives/judkins/ Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: Charges were dropped against a Malaysian cartoonist, Indie bookstores are helping register voters, Infowars is banned from top social sites, a famous novel is being adapted for TV, lost poetry from the 1860s is being published, public library visits are up according to a new report, and Tor continues to face backlash from public libraries in the US and Canada. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! Additional support is also provided by Bookbyte. Buy and sell used textbooks today at Bookbyte.com. Also by Photolemur, the world’s first photo editing AI software. Download today at Photolemur.com. And by Simplilearn, get certified today in digital marketing, project management, IT Security, and more! Enroll at Simplilearn.com. This podcast is also brought to you by the stage play of Interlude to Sentimental Me!, the original poetry by aois21 Creative Michael B. Judkins. Tickets start at just $15 with discounts for youth and seniors. Both performances will be at Rosemont Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, PA. Get your tickets from EventBrite today! Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: Amazon is producing a TV series of "Lord of the Rings," a Harlem library won Malcom X's unpublished work at auction, Strand Magazine will publish unseen work by Ernest Hemingway, Bob Woodward got unofficial access to most of the White House for his book on President Trump, the Trump administration will lower its tariffs on Canadian newsprint, and violence against journalists in Ukraine is rising. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit http://www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! Additional support is provided by Photolemur, the world’s first photo editing AI software. Download today at Photolemur.com. This podcast is also brought to you by the stage play of "Interlude to Sentimental Me!", the original poetry by aois21 Creative Michael B. Judkins. Tickets start at just $15 with discounts for youth and seniors. Both performances will be at Rosemont Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, PA. Get your tickets today from http://www.aois21.com/creatives/judkins/! Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: Bob Dylan has finally received his Nobel Prize, there’s now a doomsday vault for data, George Takei is writing a graphic novel, the Webby Awards nominees have been announced, Amazon Books is coming to New York, there is now a wheel of old book smells, and there’s a reason audiobooks are on the rise. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. This episode is sponsored by the Kensington Day of the Book. Sunday, April 23rd from 11 to 4 in Kensington, Maryland. Come out to see live musical performances, local authors, exhibitors, and other literary events. Visit www.dayofthebook.com for more information. It is also brought to you by “Dating” as Told by the Modern Whore by Aylin Vega. The collection of Aylin’s sexual adventures is now available in paperback from Lulu.com. Pick up your copy today! #BetterThan50Shades Literally This Week is available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Podomatic, and media.aois21.com. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. You can now support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: U.S. libraries are dealing with hate speech, Bob Dylan is sorry he didn’t go to Sweden, the Golden Globe nominations are out, UK Libraries are cutting back, the winner of France’s highest literary honor has some harsh things to say about France’s leadership, the most expensive science book sets a new record at auction, and American Publishers have sent a letter to President-Elect Trump. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. This episode is sponsored by the Indiegogo campaign for The Will of the Magi by Paul Dickinson Russell. Running now through January 21st, we are raising money to edit, design, and print Russell’s fantasy epic. Visit indiegogo.com and show your support. It is also brought to you “Dating” as told by the Modern Whore, a memoir of sexuality and relationships by Aylin Vega. Sometimes funny, always risqué, pick up this guide to dating in the 21st century from the aois21 market, and everywhere eBooks are sold. Literally This Week is available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Podomatic, and media.aois21.com. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. You can now support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

This week: The new Harry Potter script book is setting records, but it’s disappointing fans, Patton Oswalt is completing his wife’s work, one lucky unpublished author may be going to the UK’s Festival of Writing, bookstores in Moscow have a problem with the new Harry Potter for a different reason, do you live longer if you read more?, and a Patrick Ness YA series is coming to theatres. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, Literally This Week. This episode is sponsored by The Empty Spaces by Bianca Palmisano, available for free with a special discount code from aois21 publishing. Available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Podomatic, and media.aois21.com. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.