Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—publishing reports, literary dispatches, academic announcements, and more—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories.
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop has curated its third portfolio for A World Without Cages, an ongoing project that features literature on mass incarceration and migrant detention. The new portfolio features seven writers, several currently incarcerated, who “imagine a future that our words can create.”
Richard Godwin considers the work of various writers—J. D. Salinger, Bret Easton Ellis, Sally Rooney, and others—who are often labeled as the voices of their generations. He analyzes the cultural motivation to define these writers by their age and era, and the drawbacks of this elevation. (Guardian)
Hope Dellon, a longtime editor at St. Martin’s Press, died on Wednesday at age sixty-seven. She joined St. Martin’s as an editorial assistant in 1975, and most recently served as an executive editor before retiring in January this year. (Publishers Weekly)
Victoria Chang discusses her writing process and the questions that inspired her forthcoming collection, OBIT. “When my mother died, I died. But I am still here. How can that be?” (Literary Hub)
Hundreds of members of the literary community gathered at the New York Public Library on Wednesday to celebrate the life of beloved Knopf editor Sonny Mehta, who died on December 30. (Publishers Weekly)
At T Magazine, the artist Sophie von Hellermann paints scenes from popular new books including Cleanness by Garth Greenwell, Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz, and Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu.
Erin Pringle talks to the Rumpus about experimenting with many different points of view in her first novel, Hezada! I Miss You.
In the latest installment of the Paris Review Daily series Feminize Your Canon, Joanna Scutts celebrates the work of French writer Inès Cagnati.
