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:
In time for Halloween: Several authors—including J. R. R. Tolkien and Michael Crichton—made a strong showing from beyond the grave on this year’s Forbes “Dead Celebs” list, which ranks the earnings of deceased notables.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston announced this week that it has filled a major gap in its Ernest Hemingway collection—purported to be the most comprehensive in the world—thanks to the Cuban Ministry of Culture’s decision to share approximately three thousand letters, manuscripts, and other documents from its archives (Boston Globe).
Director Jonathan Demme has announced plans to adapt Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun (McSweeney’s, 2009) as an animated feature (New York Times).
China’s People’s Daily—the state-controlled organ of the Communist Party—has accused Google of trying to censor its Web site after the paper reported on complaints brought against the Internet company’s book-scanning venture (Independent).
Also in China, a bookseller was lynched and four of his colleagues were injured this week when parents at a primary school in Zhejiang province heard rumors that the men had been involved in human smuggling (Reuters).
After a three-day closure occasioned by falling plaster in the poet’s former home, the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, is scheduled to reopen tomorrow (Press Release).
Author Margaret Atwood—whose promotional activities for her latest novel, The Year of the Flood (Nan A. Talese, 2009), have so far included blogging and tweeting—is set to run a YouTube competition (Reuters).
Letters by the Romantic poet Lord Byron set a new auction record in London yesterday when they sold to an anonymous bidder for about $455,000 (Times).
