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 director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt has announced that the country's young people have organized into groups to protect the library during this period of civil unrest to ensure it does not meet the same fate as its ancient predecessors. (Guardian)
Senator Patrick Leahy has introduced a bill that would restore protections for reader privacy that were eliminated in 2001 by the Patriot Act. The protection would "eliminate the danger of the federal government using its broad search power to conduct fishing expeditions into what people are reading." (Campaign for Reader Privacy)
In the lead-up to the National Book Critics Circle Award announcements on March 10, Critical Mass is highlighting one of the thirty-one finalists each day.
The publisher of Harper's magazine has rejected fifty thousand dollars in pledged funds after the magazine's staff and star contributors attempted to raise additional monies to circumvent the layoffs of two editors. (Forbes)
How do you bind a book with ten thousand pages? The University of Iowa Libraries just had to find out.
Jimmy Fallon will publish two books with Grand Central Publishing, the first due out on May 23. (Wall Street Journal)
The Chronicle of Higher Education compiled a list of the ten best-selling books on college campuses. The surprise winner: Decision Points by George W. Bush.
Are e-books changing the way we think about owning books? (Good e-Reader)
What's the problem with memoirs? (New York Times)
