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:

A book lover in Pittsburgh has organized trolley tours of the city's libraries and indie bookstores over the next two weekends, respectively. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [2])

The New York Times [3] rounded up the "heavyweight titles" that publishers plan to roll out during the upcoming fall season. 

As reported last week, some folks who live in the neighborhood of the Barnes & Noble near Lincoln Center in New York City are sad to see the store closing its doors. The New York Observer [4] reminds everyone that residents of the same neighborhood protested the store's opening fifteen years ago.

A spokesperson for The Oprah Winfrey Show announced that Oprah's Book Club will choose its next title "during a live episode airing on September 17." (Associated Press [5])

Even though Tony Blair's recent memoir "has officially become one of the fastest-selling memoirs since records began," according to the Bookseller [6], the author was the target of thrown shoes and eggs as he arrived at a book signing in Dublin, Ireland. (BBC News [7])

Author and atheist Christopher Hitchens, currently undergoing chemotherapy for a cancer diagnosis, has asked his fans not to pray for him. (Guardian [8])

Publishers Weekly dispatched from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival in Georgia this weekend, and you can read about all the fun at PWxyz [9]. 

Fans of Sylvia Plath have called for a "proper memorial to her life and work." (Observer [10])