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:
Donald Hall, Harper Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and Philip Roth are among those who will receive the 2010 National Humanities Medal, which will be presented in a ceremony at the White House today. (Arts Beat)
After twenty years, acclaimed literary journal Open City is shutting down. (New York Observer)
Actress Anjelica Houston, reality star Bristol Palin, and, purportedly, Charlie Sheen are all publishing memoirs soon, according to Jacket Copy, the Star, and the Chicago Tribune, respectively.
Author Michel Houellebecq has released a music single that the Guardian is hailing as the genuine article—more Morrissey than Rock Bottom Remainders, the band with Stephen King on rhythm guitar. Take a listen for yourself here.
An artist from Iowa made a replica of Minas Tirith, the white city hewn from a cliffside in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, out of an absurdly large number of matchsticks. (Kuriositas)
Amanda Hocking, the self-published author who recently breached USA Today's top fifty best-seller list, is selling a hundred thousand copies of her e-books every month and raking in money through the Kindle store's financial terms: She gets a 70 percent cut of each sale. (Novelr)
Meet Library Journal's 2011 Paralibrarian of the Year, Gilda Ramos.
Bloomsbury USA posted its best financial year ever in 2010. (Publishers Weekly)
The new version of the iPad is expected to be unveiled at an Apple press conference today. In the meantime, here are a bunch of rumors about the device. (TUAW)
