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:
In the three days following the recent release of Apple newest iPad, the tech giant sold three million units [2]. (GalleyCat)
Amazon is purchasing Kiva Systems for almost eight hundred million dollars. The company manufactures robots [3] used in warehouses, which are currently employed by Amazon subsidiaries Zappos and Diapers.com. (Shelf Awareness)
Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn, who has edited the Paris Review Daily [4] this last year, which she joined after working for the New Yorker’s Book Bench, will begin a new position next month as a senior editor at Harper’s. (New York Observer)
Novelist Geoff Dyer investigates the nebulous "literary establishment. [5]" (Guardian)
Analyzing almost a decade of sales data from Nielsen Bookscan, Craig Garthwaite, a business professor at Northwestern, contends Oprah's Book Club may have caused overall industry sales to drop [6]. (Atlantic)
Flavorwire challenges readers to match the famous writer to examples of their distinctive prose [7].
On his blog, writer and editor Andrew Hearst details exactly how to create an iPad archive [8] of every issue of a favorite magazine available via Google Books. In this example, he uses Graydon Carter's and Kurt Andersen's influential late-1980s glossy, Spy.
Draft, a new series about the art and craft of writing, explores "the sentence as a miniature narrative [9]." (New York Times)
This past weekend, two gentlemen in Ann Arbor, Michigan, came to fisticuffs over a heated literary discussion [10], which resulted in a hospital visit, an arrest, and a pair of broken eyeglasses. (Ann Arbor.com)