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:
Michiko Kakutani, acclaimed former book critic at the New York Times, talks to Rolling Stone about her forthcoming book of essays, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump.
“First and foremost, Bourdain was a writer.” Anthony Bourdain’s former publisher Karen Rinaldi remembers how important storytelling was for the late writer and celebrity chef. Bourdain died earlier this month at age sixty-one. (Publishers Weekly)
“Her writing traverses the postwar poetic forms of Deep Image and Open Field, while simultaneously exploring diaristic, kinetic, and structuralist tendencies that open up her art and text to what Joseph calls her ‘haunting engagement[s] with the other.’” Poet Felix Bernstein interviews Branden Joseph, the editor of a new collection of writings by multi-disciplinary artist Carolee Schneemann. (BOMB)
Meanwhile, at New York Times Magazine, eleven contemporary artists reimagine new cover designs for their favorite summer vacation reads.
Audiobook sales rose 22.7 percent in 2017, marking the sixth year in a row of double-digit growth in sales. (Shelf Awareness)
“Despite the heavy legacy Ward’s characters carry, they are afforded a reckoning and healing that Faulkner’s characters are not.” Ellen O’Connell Whittet traces the intricacies of the southern settings in Jesmyn Ward’s and William Faulkner’s novels. (Ploughshares)
Happy Summer Solstice! Celebrate the longest day of the year with these summer horoscopes for writers. (Electric Literature)
