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:
While Detroit Public Library faces closure of more than half of its branches, three of the city's suburbs may also see their local libraries shuttered. (Detroit Free Press [2])
A Miami University undergrad has developed an app to detect improperly shelved library books. (New Scientist [3])
New York City Public Library officials confirm the legality of watching pornography on library computers. (CBS News [4])
A fiction editor responds to the backlash against Pulitzer Prize–winner Jennifer Egan's advice to young women writers to "shoot high and not cower." (Millions [5])
Former Smiths frontman Morrissey has completed his memoir, which weighs in at over six hundred pages, despite the singer's opinion that he's "really not that interesting." (Guardian [6])
Members of a time-crunched Washington, D.C., book club ditch their books for their ever-accumulating New Yorkers. (Wall Street Journal [7] via Huffington Post [8])
Thousands of newly discovered papers from Walt Whitman's time as a clerk in Washington, D.C., reveal the poet's relationship with current events of his time. (Philadelphia Inquirer [9])
Politicized promotional efforts and merchandise tie-ins (Rearden Metal bracelets, anyone?) aren't keeping Atlas Shrugged: Part One from sinking at the box office. (Slate [10])