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:
British novelist Matt Haig shares with the Telegraph thirty things he’s learned about publishing [2] since landing his first book deal ten years ago.
Authors such as Neil Gaiman and Ian Rankin pay tribute to best-selling horror novelist James Herbert, who died yesterday at sixty-nine [3], the BBC reports.
In an interview with National Public Radio, poet Dunya Mikhail shares her experience of revisiting Iraq through poetry [4] after fleeing in the wake of the Gulf War seventeen years ago.
Salon's Laura Miller argues that e-books, which make up only 25 percent of the book market, aren’t replacing print [5]; rather, they are serving as a proving ground where publishers can find new authors with an established readership.
Saskatchewan libraries are seeking to promote reading by launching a contest in which teenagers ages twelve to eighteen create a trailer for their favorite book [6]. (Daily News)
Flavorwire features accounts from former students who studied under acclaimed writers [7] such as Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jonathan Franzen.
Knopf has just published the first English translation of Vladimir Nabokov’s only full-length play [8], written when he was twenty-four years old.
Having recently asked their Facebook community if they have any literary tattoos, Book Riot’s staff reveal their own ink [9].