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:
With the support of Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Junot Díaz, Tom Robbins, Scott Turow, and others, Tom Corwin is hitting the road this spring on a cross-country bookmobile trip.
The owner of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has restructured about $4 billion of the publisher's $7 billion debt load. (Wall Street Journal)
Self-publishing company Lulu launched a new program that allows individuals and organizations to access its technology platform. (Triangle Business Journal)
Publishers Weekly reports on yesterday's Random House digital reorganization.
Despite Nintendo's recent announcement that it will release a hundred classic books for its portable game consoles, the company says its not trying to be a contender in the e-book market. (Publishing Perspectives)
The New York Times Arts Beat blog picks up on the fact (originally addressed by She Writes) that all of the guest editors selected by Houghton Mifflin for its Best American anthologies for 2010 are white men.
Levi Asher asks super sleuths to solve a literary mystery on his blog, Literary Kicks.
Faber & Faber is starting a creative writing school in Canada. (CBC News)
And finally, over at the Millions blog, Garth Risk Hallberg makes a case for why Dave Eggers should be the next editor of the Paris Review.
