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Four New Gabriel Garcia Marquez Audiobooks, Interacting with Literary Agents, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
8.27.13

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:

The Wall Street Journal reported Mitchell Klipper, CEO of Barnes & Noble’s retail division, sold five million dollars of his personal stock [2] in the company. (Shelf Awareness)

An archive of the work and correspondence of poet Charles Bukowski is now available online [3] at Bukowski.net. (GalleyCat)

New York magazine previews this year’s fall releases, including new books from J. M. Coetzee, Nora Ephron, and Amy Tan [4].

Time looks inside the wild world of celebrity fan fiction [5], which has millions of readers.

On her blog, publishing veteran Jenny Bent offers advice on interacting with literary agents [6] at conferences: “Agents are people too.”

Author Benjamin Percy recently spoke with the Late Night Library [7] podcast about genre fiction and werewolves, among other literary subjects.

And on the New Yorker’s Out Loud podcast, Rebecca Mead and Joshua Rothman discuss Jane Austen [8].

Meanwhile, if you need more listening pleasure, four Gabriel Garcia Marquez novels are now available as audiobooks [9]. (Los Angeles Times)


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/interacting_with_literary_agents_gabriel_garcia_marquez_audiobooks_and_more [2] http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2072#m21277 [3] http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/charles-bukowski-manuscripts-online_b76832 [4] http://nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2013/books-calendar-2013-9/ [5] http://entertainment.time.com/2013/08/26/inside-the-wild-and-addictive-world-of-celebrity-fan-fiction/ [6] http://jennybent.blogspot.com/2013/08/successful-schmoozing-with-agents-at.html [7] http://latenightlibrary.org/benjamin-percy/ [8] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/08/out-loud-jane-austen.html?intcid=obnetwork [9] http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-four-gabriel-garcia-marquez-novels-become-audiobooks-20130826,0,1060176.story