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:
Sportswear company Under Armour has released an online ad campaign, “Unlike Any,” featuring videos of women athletes, including principal ballerina Misty Copeland and sprinter Natasha Hastings, performing to poems. The featured poets include Saul Williams, Dominique Christina, and Aja Monet. (Adweek)
The New Yorker tells the story behind the Swintec typewriter, a clear typewriter that was designed to pass prison regulations.
Alissa Nutting talks with Jezebel about her new novel, Made for Love, and its many preoccupations: intimacy, fetishes, and how technology affects relationships. Listen to a recording of Nutting reading from Made for Love in the latest issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
The New York Times shares a list of more than twenty-five forthcoming political tell-alls, including those written by Donald Trump’s ex-wife, Ivana Trump; former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr.; and Beck Dorey-Stein, a former White House stenographer.
Meanwhile, Alex Shepard tracks how Donald Trump has led to increased book sales across the publishing industry. “Trump’s presidency has created a huge market for everything from campaign memoirs to resistance manifestos to dystopian fiction.” (New Republic)
The Library of America, a publisher of hardcover editions of American classics, has announced that longtime president Cheryl Hurley and editor in chief Geoffrey O’Brien will retire at the end of the year. Max Rudin will succeed Hurley as publisher, while the press is currently looking for O’Brien’s successor. (New York Times)
Stanford University Libraries is now streaming more than two thousand audio-cassette recordings of Allen Ginsberg from the 1970s to the 1990s.
“That’s something that I wanted to be part of the book, to represent that experience specifically of being outside and being an observer. That’s been a natural state of being for me from the beginning.” Zinzi Clemmons talks about writing her debut novel, What We Lose, which came out last week. (Los Angeles Times)
To read an excerpt of Clemmons’s book, check out the Poets & Writers annual “First Fiction” feature.
