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:
"International tastemaker" and Knopf editor Sonny Mehta, who throughout his career has published luminaries such as Albert Camus, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, and Toni Morrison, will receive the London Book Fair's lifetime achievement award. (Bookseller)
The third Emirates Airline Literature Festival opened yesterday in Dubai, an event that features authors Margaret Atwood and Lynne Truss and Monty Python actor Michael Palin, among a host of other literary and cultural figures. (Gulf News)
Senate majority leader Harry Reid gets flack from his Republican peers after mentioning a cowboy poetry festival among the programs proposed budget cuts would adversely affect. (CNN)
Re-nest presents a slideshow of writers cottages, from Roald Dahl's "Gipsy House" to Virginia Woolf's writing shed. (via Book Bench)
Meanwhile, F. Scott Fitzgerald's former home in Long Island, New York, rumored to have inspired the author to pen The Great Gatsby, is set to be razed. (Jacket Copy)
Western New York middle school students created a living "wax museum" of literary figures, an annual research and performance project that is now in its fifteenth year. (Post-Journal)
Looking to do something constructive with those ubiquitous Charlie Sheen rant quotes that have captured the nation's fascination? The Washington Times Craft-o-Rama community offers a guide to making your own poetry magnets, "a craft to help you mentally expectorate all that celebrity worship."
