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:
Chris Daggett, a former New Jersey gubernatorial candidate, will succeed David Grant as president and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, which sponsors the country's largest poetry festival every two years. (Daily Record)
Barbara Streisand is set to bring some high-wattage star power to BookAmerica Expo in New York City in May. (Los Angeles Times)
A Trappist bookbindery run by Oregon monks has lost over half of its business in the last thirty years because of the "trend towards digital archiving." (Catholic Sentinel)
After years of requests, Stephen King has obliged fans of the sport by penning a baseball novella about "the first—and only—player to have his existence completely removed from the record books." (Guardian)
The book industry's transition to the agency model for book pricing on April 1 may cause some hiccups in the availability of some titles. (Publishers Weekly)
Margaret Atwood is having a delightful time in the Twittersphere: "Let's just say it's communication, and communication is something human beings like to do." (New York Review of Books)
The New York Times laments a casualty of the digital book revolution: the book cover.
After a 35 percent drop in profits last year due to the absence of any new Harry Potter titles, Bloomsbury is repackaging all seven of the boy wizard's adventures in snazzy new covers to try to "recapture a little of [the] magic." (Sydney Morning Herald)
