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Pat Conroy Offering Free Film Rights, New Haruki Murakami Story, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
10.24.13

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:

A new story by bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami [2] is available free online at the New Yorker. (GalleyCat)

Hector Tobar reports that the Texas Book Festival, which is ongoing, has received bad press over a lack of diversity in this year’s roster of more than two hundred authors. Festival literary director Steph Opitz answered criticism [3] in a letter to the Texas Observer, stating, “I, too, am disappointed that there is not more diversity in this year’s line-up.” (Los Angeles Times)

Fast Company explains the importance of your workspace, and what changes can improve performance [4].

Author Pat Conroy is offering to give away film rights to his follow-up to The Great Santini, [5] which starred Robert Duvall in the 1979 adaptation. If a film is made of his new book The Death of Santini, Conroy hopes the offer will persuade Duvall and his co-stars to reprise their roles. (USA Today)

The Guardian considers science fiction hero Ray Bradbury’s unknown legacy of realist stories [6].

“To think about a place has always been a way into a story.” Novelist Donna Tartt speaks with Laura Miller [7] at Salon.

Meanwhile, the San Francisco Chronicle looks at how certain famed authors—including Donna Tartt, Tom Wolfe, and Mark Twain [8]—wear a trademark mode of dress.

The current issue of Poetry includes four letters by Robert Creeley [9].


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/pat_conroy_offering_free_film_rights_to_new_book_new_haruki_murakami_story_and_more [2] http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/haruki-murakami-story-new-yorker_b79282 [3] http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-texas-book-festival-apologizes-for-lack-of-diversity-20131023,0,5086592.story#axzz2iSQLI0KD [4] http://www.fastcompany.com/3019588/work-smart/why-changing-your-desk-changes-the-way-you-work [5] http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/10/23/the-death-of-santini-by-pat-conroy/3150767/ [6] http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/oct/23/ray-bradbury-unknown-realist-fiction?CMP=twt_fd&CMP=SOCxx2I2 [7] http://www.salon.com/2013/10/22/donna_tartt_the_fun_thing_about_writing_a_book_is_that_it_really_is_a_different_life/ [8] http://blog.sfgate.com/bookmarks/2013/10/22/twain-to-tartt-a-long-tradition-of-author-uniforms/#17107101=0 [9] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/10/by-the-letter-creeley-eigner-dorn-zukofsky/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HarrietTheBlog+%28Harriet%3A+The+Blog%29