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 fact that my child is dying (people rarely phrase it this way, it’s always a watered-down description) will apparently transform me into a metal that also appears in another pop song." Emily Rapp writes of grief, and Yaddo [2]. (Rumpus)
Amazon is now selling e-books in the United Kingdom in greater numbers [3] than print. (TechCrunch)
Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho has choice words for James Joyce's Ulysses [4]. (Guardian)
A new web start-up, Togather.com, intends to help authors revive the book tour via crowdsourcing [5]. (In recent years, publishers have dramatically scaled back author tours to save costs.) (Digital Book World)
Stephen King announced he will deliver a sequel to his 1977 best-seller, The Shining [6]. (Los Angeles Times)
Sarah Miller writes of literally the worst word in the world [7]. (Awl)
In case you missed this Slate essay on Friday suggesting social media's literary community is too nice [8]—it made Twitter all aflutter.
Washington Post book critic Ron Charles weighed in on the kerfuffle [9]; Roxane Gay disputes the premise [10] at Salon; and novelist Emma Straub, who was used as an example in the Slate piece, answered the criticism directly via her blog [11].
Meanwhile, Adam Sternbergh, at the New York Times Magazine's 6th Floor blog, suggests a list of names to consider in lieu of "Twitterverse," such as Twitlandia [12].
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