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:
In what is being investigated as a hate crime, forty gay and lesbian themed books worth several thousand dollars were vandalized with a bottle of urine at a Harvard University library. (Boston Herald)
United States Artists, a grant-making and advocacy organization, selected fifty-two artists, including the poet Martín Espada, to receive unrestricted fellowships worth fifty thousand dollars.
A community in Georgia threw a surprise fourth birthday party for beloved local bookstore A Novel Experience complete with the gift of enough money to cover a month's mortgage payment.
Jacket Copy asks: Why is Len Riggio Publishers Weekly's person of the year?
An American woman who has been serving as the state librarian of New South Whales, Australia, for the last five years has left her post to return to Michigan after a family tragedy. (Sydney Morning Herald)
How has digital technology impacted the African American book market? Publishers Weekly takes an in-depth look.
An indie documentary opened in Hollywood, California, last Friday night that explores what makes bad writing by asking famous authors like Margaret Atwood and Nick Flynn to critique the filmmaker's own bad poetry. (Jacket Copy)
Health has named "writer" as one of ten careers with a high rate of depression.
Have e-readers made giving books as gifts less fun? (Globe and Mail)
