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:
Approximately six hundred pieces of sheet music owned by author Jane Austen and her family have been digitized, and are available to view for free at the Internet Archive. (Smithsonian)
A start-up in London intends to compete with Amazon’s fast delivery. The new company is called NearSt., and delivers books from forty different area bookstores to customers within the hour. (Electric Literature)
At Asymptote, poet and translator Sawako Nakayasu discusses her work of translating Japanese Modernist literature into English. Nakayasu won the 2016 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for The Collected Poems of Sagawa Chika (Canarium).
The Wall Street Journal provides a first look at the cover art for, and an excerpt from, the U.S. edition of Elena Ferrante’s forthcoming book, Frantumaglia. The book, which features letters and interviews from the best-selling author, will be published November 1 by Europa Editions.
“It’s been immensely liberating to realize so much of joy is made worse by trying to make joy stay. And so much of suffering is made worse by trying to make suffering go away.” DiveDapper features an interview with poet Max Ritvo.
Poet Dawn Lundy Martin is working with experimental poet and musician Russell Atkins to put together a volume of Atkins’s collected works. Following the completion of the volume, Martin will create a video documentary about Atkins and her experience working on the project. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
In a defiant criticism of the most punk sort, punk feminist musician Viv Albertine recently defaced the British Library’s exhibit on London’s punk beginnings, Punk 1976–1978, for its erasure of female musicians who she felt were integral to the movement. (Atlas Obscura)
