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:
The Paris Review announced today that Lorin Stein has been named the literary magazine's new editor. Stein, a book editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, succeeds Philip Gourevitch. (New York Times Arts Beat)
Barnes & Noble announced plans to bundle printed books with e-book discounts in an effort to leverage its retails stores to increase e-book sales. (Publishers Weekly)
Borders Group asked for an extension on a loan in excess of one billion dollars, due in July 2011, only to have the loan holders respond with a demand for $360 million. (Financial Times)
Vanity Fair collected tributes to the late Barry Hannah from Jim Harrison, Amy Hempel, and John Grisham. Harrison gushes that Hannah "could at gunpoint write a life story of a telephone pole."
Michael Chabon takes stock of the San Francisco literary scene. (Wall Street Journal)
Buckle your seat belts: the iPad has an official U.S. launch date of April 3, and pre-orders for the 3G model start next week. (Gizmodo)
An old-timey and formerly exclusive membership library in Boston now offers lunchtime poetry readings open to the general public, the Boston Globe reported.
Jon Stewart will headline the 2010 BookExpo America in May at New York City's Javits Convention Center. (American Booksellers Association)
In the least surprising story of the week, Canadian researchers found that the popularity of Harlequin romance novels might have something to do with evolutionary psychology. (Guardian)
