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:
Recently, PBS NewsHour spoke with Staten Islander Jennifer Fitzgerald [2] about how poetry can help search for meaning in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Meanwhile, NPR's All Things Considered interviewed Rose Styron about her late husband [3], novelist William Styron, and what the new book of his correspondence reveals about the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
The Obama family visited an independent bookstore [4], One More Page, in Virginia this weekend to promote Small Business Saturday. (Reuters)
Dave Eggers likes Green Apple Books in San Francisco [5]; Pete Hamill frequents New York City's famous Strand—these are just a few authors featured in My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop. (Atlantic)
Proving it's never too late to write, Flavorwire rounds up a collection of "literary late bloomers," including Charles Bukowski, and Deborah Eisenberg [6].
And if you need a nudge writing that first novel, MediaBistro found a Random Line Generator. [7]
For lit-minded holiday shoppers, Book Riot collected gift ideas [8] on its Pinterest board, as did Largehearted Boy's David Gutowski [9].
And if you're in the holiday spirit, the Los Angeles Review of Books is attempting to raise ten thousand dollars [10] by Friday—if they succeed they'll win a matching grant.