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:
After seventeen years, U.K. publisher Faber & Faber has terminated its partnership with American publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Faber & Faber’s chief executive Stephen Page said that “it has become important for us, as a U.K.-based publisher, to be able to operate under our strong brand in all English language markets and, of course, the United States is the largest of these.” (Melville House)
To celebrate the centenary of poet John Berryman’s birth, multiple reissues and new volumes of his work have been published. Author and professor Christopher Benfey suggests that publishing too much of Berryman’s work, rather than a selection of his best, risks burying the poet’s reputation altogether. (Atlantic)
Novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby will adapt Nina Stibbe’s National Book Award–winning memoir, Love, Nina, as a five-part BBC miniseries. Hornby has written numerous books that have been adapted for film, including High Fidelity and About a Boy. (Paste)
“The popular image of the copy editor is of someone who favors rigid consistency. I don’t usually think of myself that way. But, when pressed, I do find I have strong views about commas.” At the New Yorker, Mary Norris discusses her life as a “comma queen.”
Happy eighty-fourth birthday to Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison—a “literary and cultural force.” (Los Angeles Times)
In certain parts of the U.S., there is currently no escaping snow. At the Poetry Foundation, poet and literary critic Stephen Burt considers the importance of snow in the American poetic tradition.
Bestselling novelists Jennifer Weiner and Jonathan Franzen are not getting along. Twitter and gender are involved. Read a rundown of their feud at the Guardian.
Joan Didion, Anne Frank, and Vladimir Nabokov have made Amazon’s list of “100 Biographies and Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime.” (GalleyCat)
