Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:
Interview With the Vampire author Anne Rice has put her southern California home on the market. The house, located in Rancho Mirage, has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a maid's quarters, and an asking price of $3.3 million. (Monsters and Critics)
The Wall Street Journal reports that last year the president was paid a $500,000 advance to boil down his memoir Dreams From My Father for middle-school children and young adults.
Yiddish writer Chaim Grade's widow, who closely guarded his legacy after his death in 1982, passed away earlier this month, and the New York Times notes that the contents of the great writer's apartment in Bronx, New York, may now be open to scholars and publishers.
Wired offers simple instructions for transferring a Stanza e-book library to iBooks on the iPad.
Bookfox does some interesting accounting for literary journals that charge reading fees.
A ninety-eight-year-old woman in Japan has sold forty thousand copies of her self-published poetry collection. (AsiaOne News)
He may be a hit in France, but memoirist-turned-novelist James Frey isn't making any friends over at Jacket Copy.
