After ordering a pilot last year, HBO has passed on The Corrections, a television adaptation of Jonathan Franzen‘s bestselling novel. Director Noah Baumbach shot the pilot and Franzen produced alongside Scott Rudin. Franzen discussed the project at a… Read More

Listen: Noah Eli Gordon – “Four Allusive Fields” Noah Eli Gordon is the featured poet today on the Poem of the Day Podcast. “Four Allusive Fields” is a nuanced and layered poem. You can read the full text of the… Read More

Ewan McGregor, the actor who played a crazy private detective in Eye of the Beholder and Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels, has been cast in HBO’s upcoming adaptation of Jonathan Franzen‘s The Corrections. Here’s more from… Read More

Today kicks off a new feature at Literarily Speaking!  Anatomy of a Character is a continuing feature with interviews talking about their main characters.  What makes these characters tick?  How did the authors develop their personalities and quirks?  Today… Read More

Join Noah Baird, author of the humor book, Donations to Clarity (South Wind Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere November 1 – December 16 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! The plan… Read More

HBO has approved a “half-hour comedy project” based on Karen Russell‘s critically acclaimed novel,  Swamplandia. Producer Scott Rudin will lead the project. Follow this link to read a free excerpt from Swamplandia. The debut novel focused on a teenaged… Read More

Shane Snow is co-founder of Contently.com, a marketplace for freelance journalists and brands-turned-publishers. Bounce rates are the bane of a blog’s existence. The higher the number, the less engaged the reader (and the more depressed the blogger). A sticky blog… Read More

Paul Lindsay, the novelist better known as Noah Boyd, passed away last week. He was 68-years-old. Boyd served in the Marines during the Vietnam War. Following his military career, he spent two decades working as a FBI agent.… Read More

For your weekend reading pleasure, we’ve collected the ten most popular publishing stories of the week–ranging from libraries recovering from Hurricane Irene (pictured) to an eBook about a major book deal to a possible Jonathan Franzen adaptation. Click here to… Read More

According to Deadline, filmmaker Noah Baumbach may adapt Jonathan Franzen‘s The Corrections as an HBO drama series. The Social Network producer Scott Rudin originally optioned The Corrections as a feature film; he would probably stay on as an executive… Read More

Not a Novel On the cover below the title, Horse Corpse will sheepishly explain, “a novel” in a small font. But the cover of Parables and Accidental Insults, my first collection of poems, will read “not a novel.” It’ll say… Read More

Just a few days after our reading with Matt Bell, Michael Czyzniejewski, and Robert Lopez we’re having our Issue #21 Issue Launch Party. Issue #21 will be released on August 1st and you can bet on seeing each of these… Read More

A site visitor wrote to ask me why I didn’t call attention to the problematic term anti-Semitic, which I had used in a sample sentence to illustrate an unrelated error. Why problematic? The root of the root word is Semite,… Read More

Along with April showers also come poems.  Today kicks off the start of National Poetry Month, and the Academy of American Poets is recognizing the event by posting thirty poets on their Twitter account–a different day, a different poet.  Each… Read More

Comedian and author Bill Cosby will write another book. I Didn’t Ask To Be Born, But I’m Glad I Was will be published in November by Hachette Book Group’s Center Street imprint. WME agents Norman Brokaw and Mel Berger negotiated… Read More

Hey Everyone!I've been quite busy lately. I'm writing book 2, and also making plans for the launch of Angel Kiss. I had a marketing meeting with Puffin last week which went super. I'm so excited because the release of Angel Kiss is less… Read More

Hey Everyone!I've been quite busy lately. I'm writing book 2, and also making plans for the launch of Angel Kiss. I had a marketing meeting with Puffin last week which went super. I'm so excited because the release of Angel Kiss is less… Read More

It doesn’t matter if you’ve been to AWP before, it’s always overwhelming. Not only are there ten more panels than you can attend at any given moment, it’s tough to find out what’s going on off-site and determine what’s worth… Read More

01.24 Ben Mirov & Solmaz Sharif read at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church. 01.25 Icelandic ambient/classical musician Olafur Arnalds comes to the Highline Ballroom and is joined by Chris Garneau. 01.26 The omni-present Literary Death Match moves to… Read More

2 Poems by Ben Mirov [Augury Books] Slope Issue 47 is out now featuring work from Kate Greenstreet, Noah Eli Gordon, Nate Slawson, Isaac Sullivan, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and more [Slope] Why you should never, ever use two spaces after… Read More

You create brilliant content for your clients. Smart writing, good analysis, compellingly readable style. Your copy makes the brand manager feel warm and fuzzy and it looks good on the web page. But so what? The marketing and media worlds… Read More

The Internet is full of freebies. Here are some of our favorites that are of special interest to fiction writers. Books & Magazines Book Promotion Ain’t For Sissies by author and webmistress Jenna Glatzer. Classic ebooks from Planet eBook. Classic… Read More

A reader asks, Is it proper to use “thru” as a replacement for “through” in professional writing? My knee-jerk reaction is, “Good Heavens! Never!” The spelling “thru” has an entry in the tolerant Merriam-Webster that jumps to through.The OED… Read More

Actor Gene Hackman has sealed a deal to publish his next novel with Pocket Books. Entitled Jubal's Bounty, the new Western takes place in 19th century of New Mexico--recounting the adventures of "a brave young hero who is forced… Read More

Actor Jim Carrey has signed on to star in an adaptation of the 1939 Newbery Honor Book, Mr. Popper's Penguins. According to Hollywood Reporter, Freaky Friday director Mark Waters will direct, and the script was written by Sean… Read More

Irene Goodman is the founder of the Irene Goodman Literary Agency. She represents memoir, narrative history, music, social issues and commentary, animals, parenting, food, Judaica, Anglophilia, Francophilia, crafts, and lifestyle. Her fiction list includes historical fiction, women's fiction, thrillers, literary… Read More

"How I Got My Agent" is a recurring feature on the GLA blog. I find it fascinating to see the exact road people took that landed them with a rep. Seeing the things people did right vs. what they did wrong… Read More

"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."… Read More

This is a guest post by Vic Shayne. If you want to write for Daily Writing Tips check the guidelines here. There are many elements that are key to creating a good story, and the arc is one of the… Read More

You don’t have to look far to find a list of the best books a writer should read. A benefit for new writers, no doubt. Unfortunately, those of us who have been around for a number of years often own… Read More

Ford has generously offered to make a donation to Mashable’s Summer of Social Good Charity Fund. 50 of their Ford Fiesta Movement Agents will be donating $2 per retweet for this post up to 3,000 retweets.We’ve shown you simple… Read More