Penguin Negotiates With Wylie, Six-Year-Old Lands Book Deal, and More

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:

The New York Times looks at Mark Twain's special connection to the Big Apple.

Fresh off the high-profile truce with Random House, Andrew Wylie is now in negotiations with Penguin over books included in the agent's Odyssey Editions project for which the publisher owns the print rights. (Bookseller)

The Daily Mirror covers the story of a six-year-old in the United Kingdom who landed a deal for twenty-three books with a U.S. publisher. (via Publishers Weekly)

Salon gushes over Tao Lin, "the next big thing in urban hipster lit."

The New Yorker Festival announced the all-star lineup for its three-day October event. (Jacket Copy)

The Wall Street Journal looks at a Vancouver bookstore's experience with the Espresso Book Machine.

Don't call it a feud: Editor Lisa Solod Warren writes in the Huffington Post that Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult's beef with Jonathan Franzen is just a way to get some press.