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 late Michelle McNamara’s true-crime book may have led to yesterday’s arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo as a suspect in the unsolved “Golden State Killer” case. Published posthumously in February, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, reignited public interest in the case of a string of rapes and murders committed in California in the 1970s and 1980s. McNamara died in 2016 while working on the book. (New York Times)
On Tuesday Michael R. Molino, associate dean for research, budget, and personnel at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, sent an e-mail to department chairs asking them to recruit alumni with terminal degrees for volunteer adjunct faculty positions. The e-mail went viral on social media and has drawn ire from many academics who see the recruitment project as a way to outsource unpaid labor. (Southern, Chronicle of Higher Education)
Fresno State University will not take disciplinary action against professor and writer Randa Jarrar following controversial tweets she made about the death of former first lady Barbara Bush. (NPR)
“When the writer does a story, I want them to talk to 10 sources and read three books.” Hanya Yanagihara, best-selling author of the novel A Little Life, discusses her day job as an editor for T Magazine. (Guardian)
Sharon Solwitz has won the Center for Fiction’s 2017 Christopher Doheny Award for her novel-in-stories Abra Cadabra. The annual $10,000 prize is given for a book of fiction or nonfiction on the topic of serious illness.
Lorne Michaels is developing a comedy series for Hulu based on Lindy West’s best-selling memoir, Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman. (Hollywood Reporter)
Look forward to your work commute with these ten short books you can read in an hour or two. (Electric Literature)
April is both National Poetry Month and Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, so this “Math Poetry Month,” learn about the intersections between the two disciplines. (Smithsonian)
