Pynchon to Collaborate With P. T. Anderson, Pearson to Invest in Nook Media, 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:

Pearson, which owns Penguin, will invest almost ninety million dollars in Barnes & Noble's Nook Media [2]. (Reuters)

The Telegraph reports the number of bookstores in the United Kingdom have been cut in half [3] in the last seven years.

Goodreads revealed out of twenty million user reviews on its website, the most reviewed book in 2012 [4] was Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. (Huffington Post)

Brain Pickings lists its reader favorites for 2012 [5], including Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things.

Slate's David Haglund writes that despite that the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road does not entirely succeed, "it’s a pretty interesting work of literary criticism [6]."

In other Hollywood news, it appears Thomas Pynchon will collaborate with Paul Thomas Anderson [7] on the film version of Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice. (New York Daily News)

With Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters out next month from Norton, the Boston Review looks at the life and work of the author of The Legend of the Holy Drinker [8], who died in Paris in 1939.

Margaret Atwood spoke with NPR yesterday [9] about Positron—the serialized novel she is publishing on Byliner.