Lydia Davis, an American writer of short stories —some of them just a single line long — has won the £60,000 ($93,230 Cdn) Man Booker International Prize.

The British Library on Wednesday added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to Beatles' classics Strawberry Fields Forever, She Said She Said and In My Life.

A first edition of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with the author's scribbles about the Hogwart's coat of arms and other details of the wizarding universe sold for £150,000 ($234,000 Cdn) at a charity auction in London today.

Dan Brown is known for fast-paced thrillers with a strong thread of history, but says he doesn't believe he's done his job until he ties his plot to a problem in the modern world.

Eve Ensler has spent a lifetime getting women to connect with their own bodies through her Vagina Monologues and other projects, but says she never was in touch with her own body until she lost part of it to cancer.

Dan Brown's newest thriller Inferno is released today, and it comes complete with tweedy symbologist Robert Langdon, mysterious numbers and the kind of publishing world intrigue that has already shot it to the top of the bestseller list.

The largest association of writers in Canada will be voting on whether or not to accept self-published authors at the end of the month.

Last year, 248,000 newcomers came to Canada of whom 27,000 arrived as refugees. Winnipegger Anne Mahon has gathered just a few of their stories for The Lucky Ones: African Refugees' Stories of Extraordinary Courage.