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Edan Lepucki on How to Define Literary Fiction, New Recording of Flannery O’Connor, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
10.23.12

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:

A new recording of Flannery O’Connor has surfaced [2]. (It was found in a University of Louisiana filing cabinet last spring.) (Deep South Magazine)

Time features an exclusive video of author David Mitchell discussing adapting Cloud Atlas [3] for film with the Wachowski siblings and director Tom Tykwer.

Meanwhile, Word & Film lists the five best movies about the lives of poets [4] that haven't been made—yet.

Author Edan Lepucki examines the defining characteristics of the literary fiction genre [5]: "A dog barks, someone eats a watermelon, a car drives away." (Millions)

The Guardian explains how to write the first draft of a novel in one month [6].

A villa on the French Rivera—where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald stayed [7]—is for sale. (Curbed)

"Coleridge was a dope fiend, Joyce and Faulkner were high-functioning drunks, Sylvia Plath a hot bipolar mess [8]." Dr. John J. Ross has the skinny on the illnesses of famous authors. (Huffington Post)

Book Riot showcases the "coolest bookshelves EVER [9]."


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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/content/edan_lepucki_on_characteristics_of_the_literary_fiction_new_recording_of_flannery_o_connor_f
[2] http://deepsouthmag.com/2012/10/literary-friday-31/
[3] http://entertainment.time.com/2012/10/23/exclusive-video-the-making-of-cloud-atlas/
[4] http://www.wordandfilm.com/2012/10/poetic-injustice-the-five-most-fascinating-poet-biopics-never-made/
[5] http://www.themillions.com/2012/10/literary-fiction-is-a-genre-a-list.html
[6] http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/20/writing-your-novel-30-days-method
[7] http://curbed.com/archives/2012/10/19/-luxury-art-deco.php
[8] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-j-ross-md/author-maladies-_b_1989313.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
[9] http://bookriot.com/2012/10/22/coolest-bookshelves-ever-part-uno/