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Arsenic-Laced Books, Barnes and Noble Fires CEO, and More [1]

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7.5.18

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:

Charles McGrath profiles novelist Anne Tyler [2], who is “not a recluse exactly—or, as one critic called her, the Greta Garbo of the literary world—but…a creature of rigorous habit…” Tyler’s twenty-second novel, Clock Dance, will come out next week. (New York Times)

Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark found arsenic-laced pigment inside three medieval tomes [3] dating back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (Smithsonian)

Barnes & Noble has fired its CEO, Demos Parneros [4], for “violations of the Company’s policies.” Parneros was fired immediately and without severance. (Publishers Weekly)

The New Yorker considers the legacy of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis [5], one of Brazil’s greatest writers who “managed, with unruffled elegance and composure, to say the most outrageous things.”

“You can put your thing down, flip it, and reverse it: that’s the crowd’s ars poetica.” Poet Anne Boyer considers the performances of Missy Elliot [6]. (Harper’s Magazine)

Yelena Moskovich offers a “summer reading list for misfits [7],” with books that aren’t page-turners but the “weirdly formatted ones, the rhythmic ones, the ones that feel too much…” (Paris Review)

Meanwhile, Real Simple rounds up the best books of 2018 so far [8], including R. O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries and Katharine Dion’s The Dependents.

Dion and Kwon are both featured in the latest issue of Poets & Writers as part of the eighteenth annual First Fiction feature [9].

Jezebel [10]interviews Samantha Hunt [10] about women’s identity, mermaids, and her first novel, The Seas.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/arseniclaced_books_barnes_and_noble_fires_ceo_and_more [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/books/anne-tyler-clock-dance.html [3] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/arsenic-laced-books-discovered-university-library-180969527/ [4] https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/77440-b-n-fires-ceo.html [5] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/hes-one-of-brazils-greatest-writers-why-isnt-machado-de-assis-more-widely-read [6] https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/4-the-people/ [7] https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/07/03/a-summer-reading-list-for-misfits/ [8] https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/entertainment/best-books-of-2018?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-button-sharing#best-books-2018-when-katie-met-cassidy [9] https://www.pw.org/content/first_fiction_2018 [10] https://jezebel.com/womens-identity-is-composed-of-myths-author-samantha-h-1827025778