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MacAdam Cage Authors Recoup Rights, David Foster Wallace Estate Decries Forthcoming Biopic, and More [1]

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Staff
4.22.14

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:

After months of uncertainty, authors published by the recently defunct independent press MacAdam Cage have recovered the print rights to their books [2]. The San Francisco press filed for bankruptcy this past January. (Publishers Weekly)

The estate of David Foster Wallace has publicly criticized The End of the Tour [3], the forthcoming film based on the author’s posthumously published transcripts, which were recorded by author and journalist David Lipsky during a 1996 book tour. (Los Angeles Times)

Salman Rushdie remembers Gabriel García Márquez [4]. (New York Times)

As literary journal ZYZZYVA celebrates its one hundredth issue, the Millions interviews editor Laura Cogan [5] concerning the magazine’s past and future.

Bucking the current trend [6] of bookstores exiting Manhattan, Posman books will open a fourth store [7] in the New York City borough, with plans to open five more over the next five years. (Shelf Awareness)

In case you missed it, the Guardian highlights yesterday’s Google doodle [8] celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë.

Author Ann Bauer examines how writers can avoid the perils of using public tragedies as plot points [9] in fiction. (Beyond the Margins)

Melville House assesses the relationships of Christian book imprints [10] to their larger publishers.

Frances Justine Post discusses her poem “Self-Portrait in the Body of a Whale [11].” (Poetry Society of America)


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/macadam_cage_authors_recoup_rights_david_foster_wallace_estate_decries_forthcoming_b [2] http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/61941-dealing-with-the-aftermath-of-macadam-cage-publishing.html [3] http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-the-david-foster-wallace-estate-comes-out-against-end-of-the-tour-20140421,0,5938664.story#axzz2zcogWYX9 [4] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/books/review/gabriel-garcia-marquezs-work-was-rooted-in-the-real.html?ref=books&_r=1&gwh=051DB583C3D24F32263F5C64990507A5&gwt=pay [5] http://www.themillions.com/2014/04/best-coast-zyzzyvas-100th-issue.html [6] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/business/media/bookstores-forsake-manhattan-as-rents-surge.html [7] http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2234#m23951 [8] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/21/charlotte-bronte-google-doodle [9] http://beyondthemargins.com/2014/04/telling-tragic-tales/ [10] http://www.mhpbooks.com/adventures-in-christian-publishing-imprints-are-for-apostates/ [11] https://psa.fcny.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/own_words/FrancesJustinePost/