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Teenage Poet Yahya Hassan, Class Divide Between Adjunct and Tenured Professors, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
1.24.14

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:

Vice magazine features Yahya Hassan [2], a teenage Danish Palestinian poet whose first collection is the most popular book of Danish poetry in history. The young poet’s outspoken views on Islam have resulted in death threats, and a physical assault.

A Barnes & Noble bookstore is scheduled to shutter [3] in Florissant, Missouri, at the end of February. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Meanwhile, Nicola’s Books [4] in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is for sale. (Shelf Awareness)

Amazon announced yesterday the creation of its fifteenth imprint, Waterfall Press, which will publish Christian-themed fiction and nonfiction [5]. (Los Angeles Times)

GalleyCat showcases an infographic created by e-book startup Hiptype called, “The DNA of a Successful Book [6].” Among the many e-book publishing statistics it features, the chart states that the biggest revenue winners are priced at $3.99.

NBC News spotlights the income disparity between adjunct and tenured professors [7] in the United States. For instance, a tenured professor may earn $144,000 teaching at the City University of New York, while the national average for an adjunct is $2,987 per course each semester.

BuzzFeed wants to know if you can guess the identity of a classic novel [8] after reading its first sentence.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/teenage_poet_yahya_hassan_class_divide_between_adjunct_and_tenured_professors_and_more [2] http://www.vice.com/read/denmarks-controversial-teenage-muslim-superstar-poet-0000192-v21n1 [3] http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/book-blog/barnes-noble-to-close-florissant-store/article_295318b5-5d99-5470-b49c-a932d8e4a086.html [4] http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2172#m22908 [5] http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-amazon-christian-publishing-imprint-waterfall-press-20140123,0,3374709.story#ixzz2rKX7RSIK [6] http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/the-dna-of-a-successful-book-infographic_b82023 [7] http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/20/22326956-class-divide-on-campus-adjunct-professors-fight-for-better-pay-benefits?lite [8] http://www.buzzfeed.com/mackenziekruvant/can-you-guess-the-classic-novel-from-its-first-sentence