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:
In honor of Emily Brontë’s two-hundredth birthday [2], the Guardian looks back at her life and her classic novel, Wuthering Heights, a “cornerstone of literary culture.”
At the Washington Post, Ron Charles meditates on Wuthering Heights [3] as an “extravagantly turbulent novel” that dazzles with its “preternatural modernity” and “exponential emotions.”
After finding several books formerly owned by Thomas Jefferson in a dumpster in Incline Village [4], Nevada, in 2014, a man has tracked down the original present-day owners of the books. (Sacramento-Bee)
Publishing expert Judith Appelbaum died last week [5] at the age of seventy-eight. Appelbaum worked as the managing editor of Publishers Weekly in the eighties and published the best-selling book How to Get Happily Published: A Complete and Candid Guide in 1978. (New York Times)
R. O. Kwon talks with NPR about religious fundamentalism [6], loving God but not believing in God, and her debut novel, The Incendiaries.
Read an excerpt of Kwon’s novel, which was featured in the Poets & Writers annual debut fiction feature, “First Fiction [7].”
“Childhood books offer an opportunity to sit down in the river of time, if just for a moment, and ponder the full scope of one’s life.” Emma Court surveys critics, therapists, and writers about why we reread childhood books as an adult [8]. (Atlantic)
Five years after the completion of the Penguin Group–Random House merger [9], Publishers Weekly considers how the two publishers pulled it off.
VICE attends India’s first transgender poetry meet [10], which “reflected the community’s daily struggle to become mainstream” and “highlighted clashes and a lack of unity within the community itself.”
“Poetry is a veil in front of a heart beating at a very fast pace.” Jericho Brown talks about using the Bible in his poetry [11], working as a speechwriter in New Orleans, and teaching creative writing. (Guardian)