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:
To honor St. Patrick’s Day, the Irish Arts Center in New York City is handing out thousands of free books by Irish authors, including works by Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett.
Speaking of Irish authors, Ireland’s first fiction laureate and Man Booker Prize–winner Anne Enright talks to Shelf Awareness about her new novel, The Green Road, which will be published in May by Norton.
Third Man Books, the independent press created by Grammy Award–winning musician Jack White, has signed with Consortium Books and will publish three new titles this year. The inaugural title will be Hidden Water by late poet Frank Stanford. (Publishers Weekly)
“For writers, money woes are the world outside tugging on us, yanking at the tails we have buried deep in our throats, reminding us that the world within is an illusion.” At this week’s New York Times Bookends blog, Rivka Galchen and Mohsin Hamid discuss how money troubles impact creativity.
Joan Didion’s essay “Goodbye To All That” is currently being optioned for a feature film adaptation by Carlson Sullivan Pictures. The production company is in search of female writers and directors to bring the essay to screen. (Deadline)
In this over-exposed, social-media-saturated age, what makes an effective autobiography or memoir? At the Atlantic, Leslie Jameson suggests two titles, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso and I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel by David Shields and Caleb Powell, that represent “efforts to reconcile the competing selves in every writer: the self that lives in the world…with the self that creates the world, or re-creates it with a purpose, reconstructing its vicissitudes in order to compose an emotional narrative or ask hard questions.”
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish eleven new Best American anthologies this year. Award-winning short story author Lorrie Moore will edit a centennial retrospective project titled 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories. (GalleyCat)
