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:
Great Big Story talks with Martin Frost, one of the last working fore-edge painters in the world. Frost paints images and scenes on the edges of gilded books that are only visible when the pages are held a certain way.
Neil Gaiman talks about not writing after having a baby, his writing prayer, and his first impression of America. (Literary Review, Michigan Quarterly Review)
The American Literary Translators Association has announced the longlists for the 2018 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose. The winners, who will be announced in November, will each receive $2,500.
In other award news, John Irving has won the 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s $10,000 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. (Columbus Dispatch)
In October Marvel will publish a spinoff of its Black Panther comic that will focus on Shuri, the genius sister of the comic’s title hero. Fantasy and science fiction author Nnedi Okorafor will write the series. (New York Times)
Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will publish a book of inspirational tweets in October with Random House. Part of the proceeds from Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You will be donated to charities that serve children and families. (Los Angeles Times)
“What’s different about this new crop of books about motherhood is their unerring seriousness, their ambition, the way they demand that the experience of motherhood in all its viscera be taken seriously as literature.” Lauren Elkin considers the recent spate of books about motherhood. (Paris Review)
Fiction writer and translator Gabriele Alemán talks with the Los Angeles Review of Books about her distrust of rules, the lack of detective fiction in Latin America, and her recent novel, Poso Wells.
