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:
Jonathan Franzen may have revived a "little known seventy-year-old novel by the Australian author Christina Stead" with a rave review in the New York Times Book Review back in May. As the Guardian reported this morning, the book's U.S. publisher is "racing to reprint the novel" and both chain and independent bookstores plan to feature it in stores this summer.
Apple may be planning to release its "second-generation iPad" as early as the fourth quarter of 2010, according to DigiTimes. The new versions will have smaller screens and "will mainly target the e-book reader market, separating them from the 9.7-inch model, which mainly targets multimedia entertainment."
The New York Times reported yesterday on the steady trend of nanny-related novels hitting the book market since the 2002 release of the bestselling The Nanny Diaries.
A novelist from Washington state is planning a book tour by sailboat. (Wall Street Journal)
Over eighty thousand people attended the seventeenth annual Tokyo International Book Fair this month, setting a new record. (Publishers Weekly)
A California novelist is seeking eight million dollars in "lost royalties" from Hachette and his former partners at Windblown Media over the book The Shack, which has sold more than twelve million copies. (New York Times)
After reporting Billy Collins's distress at seeing his own poems automatically reformatted by the Kindle, the Huffington Post asks an important question: "Will poems every work in e-book formatting?"
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