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:
The Wall Street Journal reported Mitchell Klipper, CEO of Barnes & Noble’s retail division, sold five million dollars of his personal stock [2] in the company. (Shelf Awareness)
An archive of the work and correspondence of poet Charles Bukowski is now available online [3] at Bukowski.net. (GalleyCat)
New York magazine previews this year’s fall releases, including new books from J. M. Coetzee, Nora Ephron, and Amy Tan [4].
Time looks inside the wild world of celebrity fan fiction [5], which has millions of readers.
On her blog, publishing veteran Jenny Bent offers advice on interacting with literary agents [6] at conferences: “Agents are people too.”
Author Benjamin Percy recently spoke with the Late Night Library [7] podcast about genre fiction and werewolves, among other literary subjects.
And on the New Yorker’s Out Loud podcast, Rebecca Mead and Joshua Rothman discuss Jane Austen [8].
Meanwhile, if you need more listening pleasure, four Gabriel Garcia Marquez novels are now available as audiobooks [9]. (Los Angeles Times)