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Saving Venice's Bookshops, Ben Dolnick's Writing Tricks, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
4.18.13

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:

Los Angeles poet laureate Eloise Klein Healy is recovering from a medical issue [2] and has canceled all upcoming events. (GalleyCat)

There's a free app to help navigate the massive Los Angeles Times Festival of Books [3] this weekend on the campus of USC.

Authors in Venice, Italy, have mobilized to save the city's bookshops [4]. (Bookseller)

Novelist Ben Dolnick reveals the writing tricks he's used and ones he's discarded [5]: “I’ve sold all but one of my microphones, put away my mini-notebooks, stopped scouring the Internet for scraps of wisdom.” (New York Times)

Emily O’Neill tallies the cost of this year's submission fees, contests, and writing workshops [6]. (Billfold)

Faber announced its new immersive e-book of The Thirty-Nine Steps [7] breaks new ground in the medium. The famous thriller by Scottish novelist John Buchan was first published as a serial in 1915. (Guardian)

For her premiere craft blog post, Graywolf Press publisher Fiona McCrae discusses first pages [8]: “Bad opening pages are all alike…too many adjectives, clunky sentences, and clichés combine to create insurmountable dullness.”

The Financial Times looks at Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir [9]by Greg Bellow, out next week from Bloomsbury.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/saving_venices_bookshops_ben_dolnicks_writing_tricks_and_more [2] http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/eloise-klein-healy-cancels-events_b68902 [3] http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-la-times-festival-of-books-app-download-20130417,0,254322.story [4] http://www.thebookseller.com/news/authors-draw-manifesto-save-venices-bookshops.html [5] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/stupid-writer-tricks/?smid=tw-share [6] http://thebillfold.com/2013/04/small-time-literary-ambition-doesnt-come-cheap/ [7] http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/17/next-generation-ebooks-london-book-fair [8] https://www.graywolfpress.org/blogs/craft-fiona-mccrae-first-pages [9] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/16ec06c0-a1f1-11e2-8971-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Qp9O1SWi