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:
Wired considers the implications of the reported cloud services deal between Amazon and the CIA [2].
Meanwhile, Amazon Publishing announced that Oliver Pötzsch's Hangman’s Daughter is the imprint’s first million-selling title [3]. (Forbes)
Tech startup Parakweet garnered a two million dollar investment to bolster BookVibe [4], a book discovery engine. (Los Angeles Times)
Vivian Gornick discusses the life and work of Mary McCarthy [5]. (New Yorker)
Poet and journalist Eliza Griswold worked with photographer Seamus Murphy [6] to document the lives and oral folk poems of the Afghan people. The entire June issue of Poetry magazine is dedicated to their project. (PBS)
From Moby-Dick to Ulysses to Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans, Molly Fischer looks at the rise of marathon readings [7] across the land. (New Republic)
BuzzFeed gathered sixteen great photos of women writers [8] at work.