PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED O’CONNOR WORK TO APPEAR IN THE NEW YORKER--WRITERS COMMISSIONED TO REIMAGINE SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS

By MICHELLE HOGMIRE | 9/10/13

SNEEK PEEK—Upcoming Sept. 16 edition of The New Yorker will contain previously unpublished writings of Flannery O’Connor. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/09/16/130916fa_fact_oconnor

PREVIEW—Selections from the Advice to Writers Interview of award-winning author David Vann: “I write every morning, seven days a week, and the momentum of writing every day is tremendously important to me, because I have no outline or plan and view writing as a transformation by the unconscious. I don’t know what will happen on the page each day, but there’s a shocking amount of pattern and structure that emerges, and I think this can happen only through a daily practice. It’s also a replacement for religion for me, so I need the daily practice for emotional and psychological reasons, to not feel that my life is about nothing.” http://www.advicetowriters.com/interviews/2013/9/10/david-vann.html

NEW FICTION—“Beautiful Creatures authors to write spinoff series,” by Publishers Weekly’s Karen Springen: “Fans of the bestselling supernatural YA series Beautiful Creatures, which concluded in October 2012 with book four, Beautiful Redemption, can breathe a sigh of relief: co-authors and best friends Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl are writing a new series, set in the same world. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will launch the new series with the e-novella Dangerous Dream on December 17, 2013, followed by the first novel, Dangerous Creatures, on May 6, 2014.” http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/59044-beautiful-creatures-authors-to-write-spinoff-series.html

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“Technology may script an end to the art of cursive writing,” by NBC News Producer Amy Perrette: Perrette’s blog discusses how new school technology impacts the relevance of teaching students how to write in cursive. Teachers, educational administrators and editors share their views on the topic. http://dailynightly.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/08/20388506-technology-may-script-an-end-to-the-art-of-cursive-writing?lite

REIMAGININGS—“Two more writers for Shakespeare effort,” compiled by N.Y. Times’ Adam W. Kepler:  “Margaret Atwood and Howard Jacobson are the latest authors to be commissioned by Penguin Random House’s Hogarth imprint to write their interpretations of plays by Shakespeare… The plays are scheduled to be published in print, digital and audio formats in 2016 to coincide with the 400^th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project.” http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/theater/two-more-writers-for-shakespeare-effort.html?ref=writingandwriters&_r=0