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:
A film adaptation of a short story by Paul Bowles long thought lost has been found in an old house in Tangier, where a copy was sent by the filmmaker to Mr. Bowles in the early 1980s. (New York Times)
The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis opens on December 3. (Chicago Tribune)
To celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary, Penguin is releasing a boxed set of one hundred postcards of classic book covers. (Jacket Copy)
With many college bookstores locked in a struggle to stay afloat in a shifting landscape, store managers are hoping to drop the dreaded b-word altogether, in favor of something like "spirit shops." (Chronicle)
Analysts in the New York Times are predicting over a million e-readers will be sold between now and the end of 2010, putting the total number of e-readers circulating in the United States at about 10.3 million.
A bookstore in Amman, Jordan, specializes in stocking titles that are officially banned, much to the delight of its owner, Sami Abu Hossein. (Los Angeles Times)
A bookstore owner in Humboldt County, California—the center of the marijuana-growing industry in the Golden State—received eight ounces of premium bud in the mail, returned to sender, with her own store address on the label. Curiously enough, she'd written a novel in which the protagonist, a bookseller, sold marijuana to customers by tucking it in the pages of old books. (New York Times)
Are many modern books too long? (Guardian)
