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:
Slate [2] poeticizes Sarah Palin.
James Fogle, the author of Drugstore Cowboy, a novel about a group of addicts who steal drugs from pharmacies, has been arrested for allegedly stealing drugs from a pharmacy. (New York Times [3])
Novelist Jennifer Belle hired forty actresses to burst out laughing while holding her newest novel, The Seven Year Bitch, in public places in New York City. (New York Post [4])
Columbia University Press [5] will publish the late David Foster Wallace's undergraduate thesis, Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, next January.
Barnes & Noble now has an iPad app. (CNET [6])
A Chinese novelist who is suing Google will have his day in court after settlement talks failed. (Associated Press [7])
On May 7, around one hundred Target stores started selling the Kindle; beginning June 6 the device will be available at all 1,740 Target locations.
The PBS NewsHour [8] last night aired a segment about the "digital frontier of the written word" featuring Scott Turow and Jonathan Galassi.
Lawrence Ferlingetti is pushing for Poets Plaza in San Francisco's North Beach. (GOOD [9])