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:
A lost one-act play by William Faulkner, “Twixt Cup and Lip,” is published for the first time in the current issue of the Strand. Faulkner wrote the play shortly after World War I, when he was in his early twenties, and it was discovered recently in the University of Virginia archives by the Strand’s managing editor Andrew Gulli. (Associated Press)
The Los Angeles Public Library has announced it will dedicate its Ascot Branch library to poet Wanda Coleman later this month. Coleman died in 2013 and was considered Los Angeles’s “unofficial poet laureate.” (Los Angeles Times)
Penguin Young Readers Group president Don Weisberg has been named the new president of Macmillan Publishers U.S. Weisberg will oversee Macmillan’s publishing divisions, audio and podcast businesses, and its trade sales organization. He will begin in January. (Publishers Weekly)
A limited television series adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle is in development for the FX network. The series will be written and executive produced by Noah Hawley, the creator of the FX series Fargo. Cat’s Cradle is the first of Vonnegut’s novels to be adapted into a television series. (Deadline)
“Poetry certainly doesn’t need to become something else, but it may prove a decent training ground for innovative fiction more often than fiction proves a training ground for good poetry.” At Literary Hub, Forrest Gander lists seven great novels written by poets.
Following last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, Ernest Hemingway’s memoir, A Moveable Feast, has risen to number one on Amazon’s French site. The book, which is about the author’s time in Paris during the 1920s, is published in French as Paris est une fête (Paris Is a Celebration),“striking a chord with a mood of defiance in the wake of the attacks.” (Guardian)
Audiobooks.com has created a new audiobook distribution service for self-published authors. The service, called Author’s Republic, allows users to submit self-published audiobook titles to multiple platforms including Audible, iTunes, Amazon, Scribd, Downpour, and others. (GalleyCat)
