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:
Barnes & Noble will launch a NOOK Video service this fall [2], providing content licensed from HBO, Sony, STARZ, Disney, Viacom, and Warner. (Wall Street Journal)
"Let’s be clear on what this means: If our libraries’ digital bookshelves mirrored the New York Times fiction best-seller list, we would be missing half of our collection any given week due to these publishers’ policies." ALA President Maureen Sullivan pens an open letter to America’s publishers. [3] (American Libraries)
Literary Death Match—a famed literary event held at venues far and wide—has launched a Kickstarter to help fund a television pilot based on its upcoming October 9 event in Los Angeles, which will feature Michael C. Hall, Susan Orlean, Moby, Diablo Cody, and Jenny Slate [4].
"Who in hell ever respected Shelley, Whitman, Poe, O. Henry, Verlaine, Swinburne, Villon, Shakespeare etc when they were alive." [5] To honor F. Scott Fitzgerald's birthday yesterday, the Atlantic published a vehement response to a 1920 letter written by a critical reader named Robert D. Clark.
If you missed the Brooklyn Book Festival this past weekend, John Williams at the New York Times has the blow-by-blow [6]; and Los Angeles Times book critic David Ulin shares his thoughts after moderating a panel discussing the literature of Southern California [7] with Seth Greenland, Emma Straub, and Karolina Waclawiak.
Meanwhile, at the Los Angeles Review of Books, novelist Adam Wilson examines the life and work of comedian Louis C.K. [8], and what he means to our cultural moment.
Yesterday was National Punctuation Day, and the Atlantic Wire rounded up the favorite punctuation marks [9] of several writers, including the em-dash, and the ellipsis.
"Where white-hot sexuality and white-hot hatred meet. [10]" Poet Mary Jo Bang plumbs the mythic love poem. (Slate)