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 Rona Jaffe Foundation has announced the winners of its 2018 awards. The annual $30,000 awards are given to six emerging women writers.
“To date, counting my MFA, workshops, and consultations, I’ve spent $44,995 on my writing life.” Melissa Chadburn breaks down the cost of the writing life. (Literary Hub)
A U.C. Berkeley professor has analyzed the writers mentioned in the New York Times By the Book column, which features writers discussing their favorite books and writers, and found that male authors mention books by other men four times as often as they mention books by women. Women authors mention men and women authors about equally. (Bustle)
“There was no whimsy in Naipaul, no trickery, no artifice, nothing mannered or magical…” Paul Theroux remembers his complicated fifty-year friendship with the late V. S. Naipaul. (New Yorker)
José Olivarez talks with the Paris Review about joy, identity, and his debut poetry collection, Citizen Illegal.
“All I care about is making beautiful things, in a way, but you can’t shut this hideous, cruel, and unjust world out of your mind. That’s what’s taking up your mind most of the time.” Deborah Eisenberg talks to Craig Morgan Teicher about Donald Trump, fiction, and her forthcoming story collection, Your Duck Is My Duck. (Publishers Weekly)
Eisenberg’s story collection is featured in the latest installment of Page One, which features twelve new and noteworthy titles. (Poets & Writers)
Vanessa Hua chats with NPR about her new novel, A River of Stars, which she has dubbed “a pregnant Thelma & Louise.”
