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:
Publishers Weekly has been acquired by a new company headed by the magazine's former publisher, George Slowik. The trade publication will remain headquartered in New York City and will retain all of Publishers Weekly's current editorial, art, and advertising staff.
A signed first-edition of Jane Austen's Emma sold for nearly half a million dollars. (New York Times)
The last person alive who knew Thomas Hardy has helped raise money to keep the author's lost manuscripts from leaving England. (Telegraph)
Poetry cocktails, anyone? The Academy of American Poets is playing bartender.
Conway, a city in central Arkansas that boasts three colleges and the Arkansas Shakespeare Festival, just lost its only traditional bookstore. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
How does the old saying go? The family that reviews books together... (New York Times)
The folks at Library Journal suggest a new movement to help readers and books find one another: liberation bibliography.
A young writer over at the Millions cut out Facebook and Twitter for three months with surprising results.
