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:
Shelf Awareness has the latest on the DOJ lawsuit. Its headline, "Justice Department to Book Industry: 'Drop Dead' [2]" echoes the famous New York Daily News coverage of New York City's 1975 fiscal crisis.
Meanwhile, independent publisher Melville House weighs in on the ramifications of the DOJ lawsuit. [3]
Financial analysis website Seeking Alpha reports that Amazon is gearing up its "global expansion [4]."
Poet and critic David Orr details the poetry of parenthood [5]. (NPR)
The New York Times visits the Rare Book School [6], which takes place each summer at the University of Virginia, gathering hundreds of "librarians, conservators, scholars, dealers, collectors and random book-mad civilians together for weeklong intensive courses."
Essayist Sarah Hepola reveals the perils and satisfactions of a five-month solo journey around the country [7]. (Salon)
Rachel Syme examines the literary legacy of Dawn Powell, who shared an editor with Hemingway and Fitzgerald (Maxwell Perkins), and whose original journals, recently up for auction, did not find a buyer [8]. (New Yorker)
Speaking of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jason Diamond found the real life Daisy Buchanan [9], who lived in the affluent Chicagoland town of Lake Forest, Illinois, (also hometown to Dave Eggers and Vince Vaughn). (Paris Review Daily)