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J. M. Coetzee's and Paul Auster's Correspondence, Self-Publishing at SXSW, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
3.11.13

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:

It looks as if Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, may testify in the Justice Department's e-book price-fixing lawsuit [2]. (The other companies named in the suit—Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, Penguin, and HarperCollins—settled with the DOJ.) (Bloomberg)

Amazon has applied for ownership of the .books domain name, and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) sent a letter of protest to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). (Ars Technica)

Publishers Weekly attended SXSW 2013, and reports one hot topic discussed was self-publishing [3].

Alex Mar examines how smart phones and wireless Internet access is reshaping the singular experience of a fellowship [4] at an artists' colony—places such as MacDowell and Yaddo. (New York Times)

Fifty Shades author E. L. James will publish a writing guide [5]. (Vulture)

"Poets may not suffer from insomnia more than other people, but they seem more likely to write about it." Lisa Russ Spaar investigates the source of her insomnia [6]. (New York Times)

Meghan O’Rourke discusses how all five winners of this year's Poetry Foundation-sponsored Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships [7] were men. (T Magazine)

"I vividly remember my last stab at sporting glory. Twenty-plus years ago, I played in the New York Publishers Softball League once a week in Central Park as a member of the Viking-Penguin team (your American publisher, formerly mine)." Novelists J. M. Coetzee and Paul Auster have published a book of their correspondence [8] entitled Here and Now: Letters (2008–2011), which is excerpted in the New Yorker.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/selfpublishing_at_sxsw_j_m_coetzees_and_paul_austers_letters_and_more [2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-08/apple-ceo-may-testify-in-justice-department-s-e-books-suit.html [3] http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/trade-shows-events/article/56302-sxsw-2013-self-publishing-david-carr-and-the-theology-of-free.html [4] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/books/review/one-hundred-seconds-of-solitude.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=review [5] http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/fifty-shades-el-james-has-some-writing-advice.html?mid=twitter_vulture [6] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/insomnia-and-the-poet/ [7] http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/young-poets-society/ [8] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/the-better-player-paul-auster-jm-coetzee-sports.html