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:
After months of uncertainty, authors published by the recently defunct independent press MacAdam Cage have recovered the print rights to their books [2]. The San Francisco press filed for bankruptcy this past January. (Publishers Weekly)
The estate of David Foster Wallace has publicly criticized The End of the Tour [3], the forthcoming film based on the author’s posthumously published transcripts, which were recorded by author and journalist David Lipsky during a 1996 book tour. (Los Angeles Times)
Salman Rushdie remembers Gabriel García Márquez [4]. (New York Times)
As literary journal ZYZZYVA celebrates its one hundredth issue, the Millions interviews editor Laura Cogan [5] concerning the magazine’s past and future.
Bucking the current trend [6] of bookstores exiting Manhattan, Posman books will open a fourth store [7] in the New York City borough, with plans to open five more over the next five years. (Shelf Awareness)
In case you missed it, the Guardian highlights yesterday’s Google doodle [8] celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë.
Author Ann Bauer examines how writers can avoid the perils of using public tragedies as plot points [9] in fiction. (Beyond the Margins)
Melville House assesses the relationships of Christian book imprints [10] to their larger publishers.
Frances Justine Post discusses her poem “Self-Portrait in the Body of a Whale [11].” (Poetry Society of America)