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.
“It’s impossible to talk about trans or queerness or sexuality in a vacuum. We’re also talking about the history of racialization, the history of class formation, the history of the ways capitalist forms of the law impinge upon the body.” The New York Times spotlights contemporary transgender literature and profiles some of its most notable writers, including Jordy Rosenberg, Andrea Lawlor, Akwaeke Emezi, and Kai Cheng Thom.
To Kill a Mockingbird has been voted the #1 best-loved novel for the Great American Read, the PBS initiative that celebrates the power of reading by exploring the country’s hundred favorite novels.
Read about To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel, the graphic adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic book, out this month from HarperCollins. (Poets & Writers)
Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, speaks to Vulture about White, his first novel in nearly a decade, the reason behind its title, and why he left Twitter.
Osprey Games is launching a board game based on Susanna Clarke’s best-selling novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, in which players can be the four central characters from the novel as they “travel around England and Europe, attending social engagements and performing feats of magic in the hope of becoming the most celebrated magician of the age.” Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Board Game of English Magic will be available in June 2019. (Publishers Weekly)
“It’s a strange fairy tale but I feel it is the most extraordinary fairy tale. And it is a fairy tale about this little person and history.” Edward Carey, author of the novel Little, based on the life of Marie Tussaud of Madame Tussaud’s wax museum fame, discusses his inspiration for the new book. (NPR)
For Breast Cancer Awareness month, Books on the Subway, a New York–based books-sharing program, has partnered with Georgina Clark, author of The Bucket List, to promote the importance of self-exams. (Bustle)
Atlas Obscura readers discuss their Tsundoku habits. The Japanese word refers to “collecting stacks of books that you haven’t read and might never get to.”
Suzy Cox’s 2012 teen novel, The Dead Girls Detective Agency, will premiere as a series on Snapchat today. HarperCollins Children’s Books partnered with the social media platform to create the fifteen-episode adaptation for Snap Originals. (Publishers Weekly)
