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:
Flavorwire considers how McSweeney’s evolved from literary upstart to institution [2].
Pamela Erens reveals that it’s sometimes embarrassing in our modern world to root for Dorothea Brooke [3], the nineteen-year-old idealist at the center of George Eliot’s Middlemarch. (Paris Review Daily)
The New York Daily News visits Flannery O’Connor’s peacocks [4].
Over eleven hundred haikus will travel aboard NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft in November as it ventures to Mars [5]. (Mashable)
Brain Picker found a rare early recording of poet Charles Bukowski [6].
Poet Derek Walcott’s new play, O Starry Starry Night [7], opens this weekend in Trinidad. (Repeating Islands)
There is a hidden (but open) public library in the basement of New York City’s famed City Hall [8]. (New York Times)