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:
Amazon is closing a distribution center in Dallas and cancelling plans to expand in the state following a dispute over sales tax. (Seattle Times)
Meanwhile, the online retail giant is adding page numbers to Kindle Books through a firmware update. (Wired)
BookExpo America announced the lineup of authors who will host breakfast sessions at this year's conference, which will be held May 23 to May 26 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City. Anne Enright, Jefferey Eugenides, and Erik Larson will join Diane Keaton and Roger Ebert, among others.
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Laura Miller introduces Salon's Good Sex awards for the best literary sex writing.
In case you missed it, the sixteenth reason to love NYC, according to New York magazine, is artist Rachael Morrison's attempt to chronicle the smell of all 300,000 books in the MoMa library. (As of late last year she had smelled 150.)
Daniel Nester and Steven Black take a look at the lifespan of literary magazines. (Bookslut) Here today, gone tomorrow? Think again.
In light of Kenneth Slawenski's biography of J. D. Salinger, published by Random House last month, Blair Fuller, an editor emeritus of the Paris Review, recalls an evening with the reclusive author.
Businessweek spends some time with the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, the company that has lost $125 million on its investment in the beleagured Borders bookstore chain.
