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Khaled Hosseini on the Taliban, James Franco Needs Your Money, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
6.21.13

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:

Publishers Weekly reports on the closing arguments in the DOJ price-fixing lawsuit against Apple [2].

Meanwhile, All Things Digital features a slide show of the DOJ’s and Apple's final summations [3].

In other legal news, a salesman for Wiley is charged with the theft of almost three million dollars [4] in books. (Jersey Journal)

Author Khaled Hosseini recently spoke with the Huffington Post about growing up in Afghanistan, and the Taliban [5].

Despite Darren Aronofsky’s involvement as director, HBO has passed on author Michael Chabon’s World War II-era series [6]Hobgoblin [6]. (Vulture)

“We escaped Poland in 1981 at night with only a few suitcases, our most important papers sewn into the lining: my parents’ diplomas from the polytechnic, our birth certificates.” In light of the Boston bombings, novelist Karolina Waclawiak discusses the immigrant experience in America [7]. (Rumpus)

Poet Elizabeth Alexander remembers her late husband, the artist Ficre Ghebreyesus [8]. (Boston Review)

Actor, director, and author James Franco needs your money [9] to create a film adaptation of Palo Alto, a collection of Franco's stories published by Scribner in 2011.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/khaled_hosseini_on_the_taliban_james_franco_needs_your_money_and_more [2] http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/57908-judge-hears-closing-arguments-in-apple-trial.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=a9ec13f0b2-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-a9ec13f0b2-304823541 [3] http://allthingsd.com/20130620/heres-apples-closing-slide-deck-in-e-book-case-and-the-dojs-too/ [4] http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2013/06/wiley_salesman_charged_with_st.html [5] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/khaled-hosseini-taliban_n_3474422.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 [6] http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/hbo-passes-on-michael-chabons-pilot.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag%2Fvulture+%28Vulture+-+nymag.com%27s+Entertainment+and+Culture+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader [7] http://therumpus.net/2013/06/the-other-side-of-nowhere/ [8] http://bostonreview.net/poetry-arts-culture/light-world#.UcMq4eSh9h8.twitter [9] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/palo-alto-stories-by-james-franco