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:
Ukrainian poet, author, and essayist Yuri Andrukhovych has called the European Union [2] to action on the continuing crisis in his home country. (Deutsche Welle)
The New York Times [3] and the Guardian [4] remember short story writer Mavis Gallant, who once said, “Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death.”
Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail has compiled responses to Gallant’s death [5] from a number of writers, including Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.
In honor of the upcoming seventy-fifth anniversary of The Grapes of Wrath, NPR will be hosting a virtual book club [6] in March and April dedicated to Steinbeck’s classic, and invites readers to join in.
And on the topic of required (or at least suggested) reading, over at the Millions Janet Potter supplies a list of twenty-eight books you should read—only if you want to [7].
Meanwhile, To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee is settling a federal lawsuit [8] she filed against a museum in her south Alabama hometown last year. (Star Tribune)
Author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis is working on film project with Kanye West. [9] (The Guardian)
In Naperville, Illinois, independent bookseller Becky Anderson has since 1964 hosted hundreds of authors at her store, Anderson’s Bookshop. With the store celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, Anderson highlights a few of her favorite author visits [10]. (Daily Herald)