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To coincide with the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, the Los Angeles Review of Books launches a new series of poets on sports; author Abby Mims explores writerly envy, a look at how bricks-and-mortar stores are tied to e-book sales, and more.
Three-time felon and Tony Award-winning poet and playwright Lemon Anderson starred in Russell Simmons's Def Poetry Jam in 2003, but the resulting money and fame quickly disappeared. Lemon, a new documentary about Anderson by Laura Brownson and Beth Levinson, will have its broadcast premiere on PBS as part of Latino Broadcasting's series Voces on October 19.
A trailer for the film adaptation of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas was leaked this morning, and has since been removed; Mike Shatzkin predicts the future of the e-book marketplace; Random House is launching a television division; and other news.
Director Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's Life of Pi (Knopf Canada, 2001), the best-selling novel about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is marooned on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, will be released in theaters this November.
Author Wells Tower writes of trailing Mitt Romney on his presidential campaign; New York City's Bowery Poetry Club has closed; Tin House editor Rob Spillman recounts serving on a Federal Grand Jury for Homicides; and other news.
In this video from Open Road Media, authors Samuel R. Delaney and N. K. Jemisin and literary agent Merrilee Heifetz speak about the late Octavia E. Bulter, who in 1995 became the first science fiction writer to win a "Genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation. "Her stories really weren't about aliens.... they were about people," says Jemisin.
In literature of every genre, some of the most interesting reflection takes place in transit. Write about a time when you were in transit of some kind—on a train, plane, bus, or bike, in a car or even on foot. Write about where you were going and why, and focus on what you were thinking, seeing, and feeling as you moved.
Revise a story by rewriting the story in the opposite order from which it first appeared. Start with the ending, and find your way back toward the original opening. Restructure the story so this new order makes sense.
David Orr details the poetry of parenthood; Rachel Syme on the legacy of novelist Dawn Powell, whose diaries, recently up for auction, did not find a buyer; Jason Diamond reveals F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love, the real life Daisy Buchanan; and other news.
The trailer for Leigh Stein's debut collection of poetry, Dispatch From the Future, published by Melville House this month, features digital animation by Jorge Colombo.
