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:
RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, intends to open another bookshop in Kittery, Maine [2]. (Shelf Awareness)
A film adaptation of Dave Eggers’s novel [3] Hologram For the King is in the works, with Tom Hanks slated to star. (Chicago Tribune)
In other Hollywood news, actor John Lithgow has optioned Elinor Lipman’s The Family Man [4]. (Boston Globe)
Famed author Neil Gaiman offered a tip for writers recently—a way to think creatively is to “get really bored [5].” (GalleyCat)
Meanwhile, a study at the University of Toronto indicates reading literary fiction encourages an open mind [6] and imaginative thinking. (Salon)
If you did not get enough Bloomsday this past weekend, an unpublished James Joyce collection [7] is due out in the near future. (Guardian)
And for Father's Day, author Randy Susan Meyers remembers her tragic and handsome dad [8].