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:
Amazon executives have testified in the Department of Justice e-book pricing lawsuit, which is attempting to prove Apple colluded with major publishers [2] in 2010. (GalleyCat)
In Norway, the Bible is selling more copies than the E. L. James [3] juggernaut Fifty Shades of Grey. (Christian Science Monitor)
A library similar to the Occupy Wall Street Library that existed in New York City has arisen amidst protests in Turkey [4]. (Book Patrol)
Famed multi-genre author Judy Blume recently spoke with Vanity Fair [5]about the process of adapting her book Tiger Eyes for film.
Justin Alvarez examines the state of the modern library, including a new facility in North Carolina [6] where books are only retrievable by a robotic system. (Ploughshares)
Brain Pickings looks at a letter the young Edna St. Vincent Millay composed in 1917 [7] that almost stopped her from college graduation.
The Los Angeles Review of Books gathered four F. Scott Fitzgerald scholars [8]—Caleb Smith, Wai Chee Dimock, T. Austin Graham, and John Irwin—and gleaned their thoughts about the new screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby.