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:
Virginia Quarterly Review web editor Jane Friedman has created a graphic illustrating five separate paths to publishing a book [2]. (GalleyCat)
A forgotten novel manuscript by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl Buck was found in a Texas storage unit [3], and will be published this October. (New York Times)
Penguin settled its final e-book price-fixing charges [4] for seventy-five million dollars. (Publishers Weekly)
Book critic Ron Charles details how a bad review can transform into a good blurb [5]. (Washington Post)
Plimpton!, a documentary directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling is out today. The film focuses on the life and work of famed author, raconteur, and Paris Review editor George Plimpton [6]. (New York Times)
Meanwhile, at the Paris Review, Michael McGrath is seeking a literary mentor [7].
Bowker has launched a self-publishing service [8] called SelfPublishedAuthor.com. (Shelf Awareness)
Flavorwire rounded up the most beautiful libraries from the world of film [9] and television.
Did you know that Nabokov's Lolita was originally titled The Kingdom by the Sea [10]? Huffington Post has twenty-three other original book titles that may surprise you.