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 young fiction editor at the New Yorker uncovered a full novel manuscript in the papers of Henry Roth. The book will be published by Norton next month. (New York Times)
Apple is selling more iPads than Macs. (All Things Digital)
In response to the recent oil spill, Poets for Living Waters has announced a call for poems about the Gulf Coast as "a turn away from the disaster’s overwhelming enormity to a more
manageable individual scale."
Borders has a new chairman after financier Bennett LeBow invested twenty-five million dollars in the retail store. (DailyFinance)
Junot Díaz has been elected to the Pulitzer board. Díaz, who became the second Latino writer in history to win the Pulitzer for Fiction in 2008, is believed to be the first Latino to serve on the board. (CB Online)
One of only two inscribed copies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's debut novel, A Study in Scarlet, described as "one of the rarest books of modern times," could fetch over half a million dollars at auction this summer at Sotheby's in London. (Telegraph)
In what the Boston Globe describes as a glimmer of hope, membership to the American Booksellers Association increased slightly this year after two decades of steady decline.
As part of the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, the Guardian is sponsoring a Twitter contest for "the most beautiful tweet ever written," judged by actor and writer Stephen Fry.
The head of the Social Security Administration is a poet. (First Things)
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