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:

Best-selling Chinese author Zhang Yiyi announced plans to undergo ten surgeries in ten months in order to look like William Shakespeare. (Shanghai Daily [2] via Herald Sun [3])

Jennifer Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad, which won a Pulitzer [4] earlier this week, has now been optioned by HBO for development into a series. (Jacket Copy [5])

The inaugural LéaLA festival, a Spanish-language book fair in Los Angeles, will kick off in the city's convention center on April 29 and feature over fifty authors in three days of events. (Publishing Perspectives [6])

Designer Karl Lagerfeld, who apparently owns a few books [7], is rumored to have a book-scented perfume in the works called Paper Passion. (Mimi Frou Frou [8] via Styleite [9])

Five years after he clashed with the legendary talk show host over factual discrepancies in his memoir A Million Little Pieces, James Frey is returning to The Oprah Winfrey Show in May. (USA Today [10])

As Amazon makes the Kindle compatible with e-book library lending, the New York Post [11] notes that customers may still have to wait on a list for popular titles, such as Harlan Coben's mystery novel Caught, which has a 275-person waiting list for the e-book version at the New York Public Library.

Warsaw's International Book Fair has been canceled after a rival fair taking place "at the same place and almost at the same time," but with lower prices for publishers, stole the thunder of the fifty-five-year-old gathering. (thenews.pl [12])

As libraries face closures and budget cuts across the United States and England, Library Journal [13] has word of a pressing discussion taking place in the industry: "What is a good collective noun for a group of librarians?" A pride of librarians? A gaggle, compendium, or Dewey of librarians? A riot of librarians?