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Cheryl Strayed Speaks With Elissa Bassist, Tips for Surviving Rejection, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
1.31.13

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:

Scribner named Colin Harrison its new editor-in-chief [2], replacing Nan Graham, who is now division publisher. (Shelf Awareness)

"Shakespeare must be a black girl. [3]" Maya Angelou delivered a riveting speech at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia, recently, and Atlantic Wire was there.

A new translation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake made the best-seller list in China [4]. (New York Times)

If you missed short-fiction master George Saunders on the Colbert Report [5]Tuesday evening, the full video is online.

In the Colbert interview, George Saunders recounts Ernest Hemingway's shortest story: “For sale, baby shoes, never worn.” Melville House explains how this is a popular myth [6].

Meanwhile, Cheryl Strayed spoke with Elissa Bassist about the Dear Sugar correspondence that changed their writing lives. Bassist tells Strayed, "Because of you I wrote the book I said I couldn’t write. [7]" (Creative Nonfiction)

Laura Miller details how libraries are no longer quiet [8]. (Salon)

If you'd like to own F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's Baltimore townhouse [9]—it's on the market. (Los Angeles Times)

Grub Street Daily provides tips for surviving rejection [10], and offers the wisdom of Winston Churchill, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/cheryl_strayed_speaks_with_elissa_bassist_tips_for_surviving_rejection_and_more [2] http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1918#m18825 [3] http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/what-maya-angelou-means-when-she-says-shakespeare-must-be-a-black-girl/272667/ [4] http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/finnegans-wake-follows-tocqueville-onto-chinese-best-seller-list/?smid=tw-share [5] http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/423310/january-29-2013/george-saunders [6] http://www.mhpbooks.com/for-sale-a-hemingway-story-never-written/ [7] https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/writing-like-a-mofo [8] http://www.salon.com/2013/01/31/bring_back_shushing_librarians/ [9] http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-f-scott-fitzgerald-baltimore-town-house-20130130,0,4281960.story [10] http://grubdaily.org/rejection-101/