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:
FSG announced plans to publish a book of Marilyn Monroe's writings, including "fragments of poetry that are really quite beautiful, lines that stop you in your tracks." (Los Angeles Times)
An exhibit at Yale University's law library examines medieval books bound from the scraps of even older books, some of whose sources remain mysterious. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Cambridge Dictionaries Online, "the world's most popular online learner's dictionary site," now includes over forty thousand audio pronunciations of words. Give it a listen in British or American English here.
In a new book due to be released early next month, Laura Bush describes in detail for the first time a mysterious and fatal car crash that has haunted her since she was seventeen. (New York Times)
British political manifestos have seen a huge boost in sales and are even outselling Nick Hornby ahead of next week's general election. (Telegraph)
The New York Observer conducted a "quasi-scientific study" to determine if Twitter helps authors sell books. The verdict? There isn't one, though it's worth noting that six of the top ten best-selling authors on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction and Nonfiction lists do not even have Twitter accounts.
In further evidence that "not everything ex-governor Rod Blagojevich touches turns bleepin' gold," the publisher of his tell-all memoir, Los Angeles-based Phoenix Books, closed last week. (Chicago Tribune)
Translators: "the underpaid and unsung heroes behind the global success of many writers." (Guardian)
