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:
“… as a child, I invented all kinds of reasons to be outside when a storm was approaching and the air was charged with electricity, and I could smell the rain arriving, feel the first drops…” Elena Ferrante writes about times of upheaval and change. (Guardian)
Poet, academic, and playwright Eve L. Ewing will write the upcoming Marvel series Ironheart, which tells the story of Riri Williams, a black teen girl from Chicago who is a genius. (Chicago Tribune)
Duke University Press will publish a new edition of James Baldwin’s picture book, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood, later this week. (New York Times)
Director Jeremiah Zagar and fiction writer Justin Torres discuss adapting Torres’s debut novel, We the Animals, for film. “I didn’t want it to be, like, poverty porn or like a Lifetime domestic violence film,” says Torres. “And [Zagar] got that.” (NPR)
The New York Times visits Gary Shteyngart at his 1930s Craftsman bungalow house in upstate New York where he writes three times as fast as he does in New York City.
Shteyngart's forthcoming novel, Lake Success, is featured in the latest Page One column. (Poets & Writers)
Editor and writer Jennifer Baker recommends story collections that “hold up a mirror to society, and to yourself,” including Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky and Carleigh Baker’s Bad Endings. (Rumpus)
Baker discusses her forthcoming story anthology, Everyday People: The Color of Life, in a Q&A with Poets &Writers.
The New Yorker considers how Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women inspired a generation of female writers.
Poet and teacher Robley Wilson died earlier this month at age eighty-eight. (Miami Herald)
The Riverside branch of the New York Public Library is lending out more than just books—patrons can now borrow ties, briefcases, and handbags from the “Grow Up Work Fashion” lending library. (Metro)
