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:
TED Conferences LLC will be publishing twelve books with Simon & Schuster as part of a series called TED Books [2]. The first book in the series will be released in September. (GalleyCat)
Novelist Philip Roth has responded to a recent review of Adam Begley’s new John Updike biography, Updike. Upset with implications that criticism of Roth's work by Updike in 1993 caused Roth to check himself into a psychiatric hospital, Roth penned a letter to the editor of the New York Times [3].
After attending the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in Seattle, David W. Brown of the Atlantic unpacks the struggle to make a living in literature [4]. Meanwhile, Brown’s colleague Koa Beck explores how the careers of many women writers may be hindered [5] by the responsibilities of marriage and children.
Poet Eavan Boland discusses the difficulties of giving space to each aspect of her identity [6] as a female Irish writer. (Nashville Scene)
The Root discusses whether writers of color should write about white characters [7].
Author Carl Hoffman discusses the 1961 death of twenty-three-year-old Michael Rockefeller [8], the mystery at the heart of his new book, Savage Harvest. (Christian Science Monitor)
The New Republic takes a look at Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autobiographical fiction [9] and at what his writing has cost him in his personal life.