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:
Creative nonfiction writer Terese Marie Mailhot and novelist Tommy Orange discuss their experiences at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA creative writing program, which was launched in 2012 to bring greater visibility to indigenous literature. (BuzzFeed Reader)
Meanwhile, Cherokee novelist Brandon Hobson recommends ten essential Native American novels, including Louise Erdrich’s Tracks and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. (Publishers Weekly)
Poet Nicole Sealey discusses her writing process, poetry’s powers of empathy and introspection, and her debut collection, Ordinary Beast. “I’m wagering poetry has and will continue to play a significant role in the creation of just societies.” (Paris Review)
Read more about Sealey’s collection in her conversation with Dawn Lundy Martin, “Vagrant & Vulnerable,” featured in the September/October 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Journalist David Grann describes the archival research he conducted to write his true crime book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, which was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award in nonfiction. (PBS NewsHour)
Speaking of the FBI, Joshua Clark Davis reports on the FBI’s targeting of black-owned independent bookstores during the Black Power movement of the 1960s. (Atlantic)
At Book Riot, Angel Cruz recommends eight books by and about immigrants released in 2018.
Several women authors have accused best-selling young adult writer Daniel Handler, also known as Lemony Snicket, of making inappropriate sexual comments to them at public functions. (Pacific Standard)
Straight pins might seem like unusual editing tools, but that didn’t stop Jane Austen from using them to edit the manuscript of her abandoned novel, The Watsons. (Open Culture)
And now the question you’ve been dying to ask: Why is someone impersonating Michael Chabon on Instagram? (Slate)
