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:
HBO has announced that it will broadcast and help produce the television miniseries of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, which will be filmed in Naples this summer. Earlier this month, Italian director Saverio Costanzo signed on to direct the series. (New York Times)
From Lyrical Ballads, written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to The Zoo of the New, edited by Nick Laird and Don Paterson, the Guardian takes a look at book collaborations between male British poets, or “bro books,” a tradition in “surprisingly rude health.”
The Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas has acquired the Believer, the literary magazine founded in 2003 by writers Vendela Vida, Ed Park, and Heidi Julavits. Joshua Wolf Shenk, the executive director of BMI, will edit the bimonthly, which was previously published by McSweeney’s. (Associated Press)
The results are in: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad has been crowned the champion of the 2017 Tournament of Books, a “monthlong battle royale among the year’s best novels” judged by writers, booksellers, literary podcasters, and editors.
Hannah Tinti talks with her editor, Noah Eaker, about her second novel, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, as well as second-book pressure and creating order from chaos in a novel manuscript. (Publishers Weekly)
The American Prison Writing Archive, run by writer Doran Larson as part of the Hamilton College Digital Humanities Archive, has received a $262,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The archive brings together essays written by inmates across the country. (Hamilton News)
The Washington Post rounds up thirty-eight books to look forward to this spring, including titles from established writers such as Elizabeth Strout and Haruki Murakami, and newcomers such as Lisa Ko and Alexandra Fuller.
Fiction writer Laila Lalami writes about keeping her private and public selves separate and argues that women face more invasive questions about their private life than men. (Los Angeles Times)
