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:
"The bookstore wars are over. Independents are battered, Borders is dead, Barnes & Noble weakened but still standing and Amazon triumphant. Yet still there is no peace; a new war rages for the future of publishing." Writing for the Nation, Steve Wasserman describes the Amazon effect [2].
The New York Times laments the demise of Brain, Child [3], an award-winning parenting magazine in existence for thirteen years, which had published writers such as Cheryl Strayed.
Author Robin Black writes with candor about the green-eyed monster [4]. (Beyond the Margins)
If you're venturing to BookExpo America (BEA) next week at the Javits Center in New York City, a mobile app is available [5] to help navigate the events. (GalleyCat)
NPR details an unusual legal battle [6] between a self-described "cat lady" and the state of Israel over the papers of Franz Kafka.
Author Lauren Weisberger is penning a sequel [7] to The Devil Wears Prada. Today, Entertainment Weekly reports that in April 2013 Simon & Schuster will publish Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns.
The Twilight fan fiction origins [8] of erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey have been erased. (Los Angeles Times)
Listen to this rare 1959 recording of Flannery O’Connor reading [9] her story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find." (Open Culture)
Melville House rounded up the visual art of many famous writers [10], including E. E. Cummings, and Jack Kerouac.