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 customer from the Netherlands has won the raffle for the Bookends Bookshop in Cardigan, West Wales [2]. For the last three months the current owner of Bookends allowed anyone who spent more than £20 to enter the raffle to take over the profitable shop. (Guardian)
Meanwhile, Atlas Obscura visits Rita Collins’s mobile bookshop, Saint Rita’s Amazing Traveling Bookstore and Textual Apothecary [3], which is run out of a van equipped with solar panels, typewriters, and electronic musical instruments.
Hua Hsu searches for a “a version of literary history that is animated not by camaraderie, or by the friendly rivalry of a close-knit cohort, but by antipathy [4], insecurity, jealousy.” (Lapham’s Quarterly)
Literary Hub highlights the most recommended books coming out this fall [5].
Michael Donkor talks with NPR about traditionalism, Ghanaian culture, and his debut novel, Housegirl [6].
Dave Itzkoff profiles actress Sally Field, whose memoir, In Pieces [7], will be published by Simon & Schuster next week. (New York Times)
From Hippocrates to Don Paterson, Brian Dillon considers the history and modern state of the aphorism [8]. (New Yorker)
Ten books everyone lies about having read [9]. (Reader’s Digest)