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Short Story Vending Machines, Writers Who Run, and More [1]

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11.12.15

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:

Vending machines in the city of Grenoble, France, will soon dispense literary snacks for the commuting consumer—that is, the machines will be stocked with short stories [2]. French publisher Short Édition has made six hundred short stories from its library available for purchase through the vending machines, which will offer customers hungry for a bite of literature the option of one, two, or five minute reads. (Independent)

“Freedom, consciousness, and wildness: Running offers writers escape with purpose.” At the Atlantic, author Nick Ripatrazone examines the connections between writing and running. [3]

Be sure to hold on to those first editions of The Great Gatsby and Ulysses. A new rare book price index reveals how values of first edition twentieth-century popular novels have more than doubled [4] over the past decade. (Guardian)

“Barthes had killed the author [5] so that ideas could run free, but then remembered there are some ideas that can only fully live in a body, a self, an author.” A writer revisits the seminal essays of French cultural critic Roland Barthes, on what would be his one-hundredth birthday. (Telegraph) 

Barnes & Noble has expanded its Nook Audiobooks offerings [6] with the launch of a new audiobook app and website, NookAudiobooks.com, which includes more than sixty thousand titles. (Shelf Awareness)

Dinah Lenney, editor of the recent collection of craft essays, Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, discusses the risky role of truth in memoir writing [7], and how writers should acknowledge memory as subjective and draw their own lines in the sand. (Biographile)

What would an “experimental” bookstore for Millennials [8] look like? Two tech entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom are opening a brick-and-mortar bookstore in London that, aside from stocking between five- and six-thousand titles, will feature apparent Millennial bait: free drinks and a DJ booth. (Melville House)


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/short_story_vending_machines_writers_who_run_and_more [2] http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/short-story-vending-machines-to-be-installed-in-grenoble-france-a6728926.html [3] http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/why-writers-run/415146/ [4] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/10/index-reveals-popular-first-edition-novels-have-seen-value-double [5] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/roland-barthes-centenary-death-of-the-author/ [6] http://www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/2015-11-12/b_n_launches_new_nook_audiobooks_app_website.html [7] http://www.biographile.com/in-memoir-writing-misunderstanding-is-a-matter-of-course/52997/ [8] http://www.mhpbooks.com/new-experimental-bookshop-for-millennials-to-open-in-london/