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:
Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti will have his travel journals published by W. W. Norton [2]. (New York Times)
Historians wonder about the later life, and death, of memoirist Solomon Northup [3], author of 12 Years a Slave. (ABC News)
In response to an announcement [4] that author Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch has been optioned for film or television, the Millions discusses casting possibilities for the adaptation [5].
Meanwhile, Flavorwire’s Elisabeth Donnelly compares Domenica Ruta’s new memoir, With or Without You, to the television show “Gilmore Girls.” [6]
Tokyo police have arrested a man in connection with the vandalism of twenty-three Anne Frank books [7] in the city’s public library. (GalleyCat)
Maya Jasanoff considers the history of the shipping industry [8] for the New York Review of Books.
Melville House looks at the impact that Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan has had on Chinese book publishing [9].
Electric Literature talks to artist Ben Sisto about working in the medium of old books [10].