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:
Barnes & Noble reported its Nook revenues are down 26 percent [2]. (GalleyCat)
Meanwhile, Barnes & Noble announced it has no intention of accelerating store closings [3]. (Publishers Weekly)
United Kingdom-based literary agencies Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh have merged [4]. (Bookseller)
NPR looks at portraits of several modern American poets [5], including Marianne Moore, and Langston Hughes.
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow was published forty years ago [6] today. (Barnes & Noble Review)
Using tools to measure linguistic evolution, geneticists estimated the compilation date of the Iliad as 762 B.C [7]. (Scientific American)
Emily Temple lists ten books to read in March [8], including Anne Carson's Red Doc>, and Speedboat by Renata Adler. (Flavorwire)
Author and writing instructor Edan Lepucki gathered the thoughts on first drafts from several novelists [9], including Emma Straub, Ben Fountain, and Emily St. John Mandel. (Millions)