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:
Nearly three hundred years ago, Lewis Theobald published Double Falsehood, a play he claimed to have adapted from three original Shakespeare manuscripts. The play was subsequently considered a forgery. Now, psychology researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have claimed that through a combination of psychological theory and text-analyzing software they have strongly identified Shakespeare as the play’s author. (Independent)
The 2015 Guggenheim Fellows have been announced. Among the 175 fellows are fiction writers Jeffery Renard Allen, Meghan Daum, and Kevin Powers; creative nonfiction writer Thomas Healy; and poets Dan Beachy-Quick and Cathy Park Hong.
The 2015 AWP conference kicked off Wednesday in Minneapolis, which according to a survey conducted at Central Connecticut State University, is the most literate city in the United States. (USA Today)
Book readings don’t always take place on the ground. During a recent flight from St. Louis to Washington, D.C., bestselling author Eric Greitens gave a reading from his latest nonfiction book, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life. (GalleyCat)
The O, Miami poetry festival is underway, and its participants have been coming up with clever ways to bring poetry to Miami-Dade County’s 2.6 million residents, including painting poems in gold leaf on urinals and sewing them into thrift store clothing tags. (Washington Post)
At the New Yorker, Leslie Jamison considers the work of Chris Kraus, and how Kraus’s books exhibit “one central drama: a female consciousness struggling to live a meaningful life.”
The film team that adapted Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games book trilogy will adapt Homer’s classic epic poem the Odyssey to the big screen. (Deadline)
Latest Readings, an essay collection by critic and poet Clive James, will be published by Yale University Press in June. News of this publication follows the recent release of James’s poetry collection Sentenced to Life. James, who was diagnosed with terminal leukemia in 2010, has dedicated Latest Readings to his caretakers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, United Kingdom. (Guardian)
