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Richard Blanco Selected Obama Inaugural Poet, Patricia Cornwell Suing Manager, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
1.9.13

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:

Poet Richard Blanco will read an original composition [2] for president Barack Obama’s second inauguration. (New York Times)

Novelist Hari Kunzru reports on an alarming political climate in Hungary [3], and how it's shaping that country's cultural institutions, intellectuals, and writers. (New Yorker)

Crime writer Patricia Cornwell is suing her former financial manager [4] for upwards of one hundred million dollars. The Boston Globe reveals the suit involves "multi-million-dollar homes, a helicopter, and a lost Ferarri."

Over seven hundred publishers have agreed to participate in JSTOR's Register & Read program [5], which begins today, and provides free access to journal articles. (Inside Higher Ed)

"The standards of craft in personal writing should not be lower than in fiction [6]. There is no reason why something true should be sloppily or boringly written." Katie Roiphe weighs in on the recent kerfuffle [7] over the ubiquity of memoir. (Slate)

Maria Semple's 2012 novel, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, will be adapted for film [8] by Annapurna Pictures and Hunger Games-producer Color Force. Michael Weber and Scott Neustadter, who penned (500) Days of Summer, will write the screenplay. (Hollywood Reporter)

In other Hollywood news, Charlize Theron may be cast [9] alongside Robert Downey, Jr. in Paul Thomas Anderson's film version of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice. (Slash Film)

The Atlantic suggests that if you've written a lot of email over the course of a year, maybe you could write a novel [10].


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/poet_richard_blanco_to_read_at_obama_inauguration_patricia_cornwell_suing_manager_and_more [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/books/richard-blanco-2013-inaugural-poet.html [3] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/01/the-hungarian-crackdown.html [4] http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/09/patricia-cornwell-case-that-reads-like-one-her-mysteries-sues-her-financial-management-firm-alleging-cost-her-tens-millions/zbm35N6sZXjRaOQOaVsvPO/story.html [5] http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/09/jstor-offer-limited-free-access-content-1200-journals [6] http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/roiphe/2013/01/bad_memoir_writing_rules_for_doing_it_well.html [7] http://www.pw.org/content/george_saunders_profile_most_anticipated_books_of_2013_and_more?cmnt_all=1 [8] http://rewired.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zero-dark-thirty-hunger-games-409737 [9] http://www.slashfilm.com/charlize-theron-may-sign-on-for-paul-thomas-andersons-inherent-vice-alongside-robert-downey-jr/ [10] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/you-probably-write-a-novels-worth-of-email-every-year/266942/