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Frank Rich Revisits Nora Ephron, First-Time Authors Over Forty, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
8.21.12

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:

Mark Brixey, the director of Missouri State University's bookstore, has been fired after over eighty thousand dollars was discovered in his desk [2] during an internal audit. A financial investigation revealed four hundred thousand dollars unaccounted for over the past three years. The university had employed Brixey for twenty-one years.  (KY3)

Bookstore sales were up almost 4 percent [3] in June. (Shelf Awareness)

Meanwhile, GalleyCat reports Barnes & Noble surpassed its market expectations [4], with a revenue increase in the first quarter compared to last year, although the company is still operating at a net loss.

Frank Rich revisits the life and work of his friend Nora Ephron [5]. (New York)

In light of E. L. James publishing her first book, Fifty Shades of Grey, at age forty-eight, Beyond the Margins rounds up many other famous authors whose first work appeared after age forty [6].

From Plato to Joan Didion, Lapham's Quarterly examines belief in sympathetic magic and other superstitions [7].

M. J. Rose discusses the pressure on authors to engage with social media [8], such as Twitter and Facebook. (Writer Unboxed)

Newsweek published an excerpt from D. T. Max's new biography of David Foster Wallace [9], Every Love Story is a Ghost Story.

Joanna Neborsky has illustrated a partial inventory of Gustave Flaubert’s personal effects [10], which were listed twelve days after the author's death in 1880. (Explore)


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/frank_rich_revisits_nora_ephron_firsttime_authors_over_forty_and_more [2] http://articles.ky3.com/2012-08-20/internal-audit_33292180 [3] http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1810#m17215 [4] http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/barnes-noble-beats-wall-street-estimates_b56314 [5] http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/nora-ephron-2012-8/ [6] http://beyondthemargins.com/2012/08/fifty-shades-of-publishing-a-first-book-when-over-40-50-60-70-80-90-years-old/ [7] http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/very-superstitious.php?page=all [8] http://writerunboxed.com/2012/08/21/social-media-suicide/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WriterUnboxed+%28Writer+Unboxed%29 [9] http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/08/19/david-foster-wallace-on-the-brink-of-infinite-jest.html [10] http://exp.lore.com/post/29902267402/panama-hat-top-hat-35-champagne-glasses-5