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:
HarperStudio, the two-year-old HarperCollins imprint, has announced that it will close. Publisher Michael Morrison, who took the helm of the imprint following last month's departure of Bob Miller, announced in a memo to staff that this summer's books would be the imprint's last.
Apple claims it sold more than 300,000 iPads on Saturday.
Salon has a reviewers' roundup of classic books—The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, and 1984 among them—that have been skewered on Amazon.
A debut novel by n+1 editor Chad Harbach fetched $650,000 at auction. Little, Brown is the winning publisher. (Bloomberg)
Rock Bottom Remainders, the band comprised of authors Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Mitch Albom, Scott Turow, Roy Blount, Jr., Greg Iles, James McBride, Ridley Pearson, and Kathi Kamen Goldmark, is going on a four-city east coast tour this month to support Hatian relief and local nonprofit organizations. (Hollywood Reporter)
The annual AWP conference kicks off in Denver on Wednesday. The Association of Writers & Writing Programs has all the details.
Next month Christie's will auction off the art collection of Michael Crichton. The collection of the best-selling author, who died in 2008, includes works by Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg. (Washington Post)
For literary readers who want to be hip and cool, Jacket Copy has posted a roundup of literary t-shirts.
Time Out Chicago takes a look at the Poetry Foundation's new headquarters, which includes a library and archive of approximately thirty thousand volumes of poetry.
