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:

More news concerning the Department of Justice's antitrust suit: Apple denies the charges [2], and its spokesperson commented, "The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry." Wall Street's response to the lawsuit: Barnes & Noble stock dropped 6.4 percent. (Shelf Awareness)

GalleyCat editor Jason Boog reminds us of an earlier time publishers faced off against another "retail juggernaut," using a "loss leader scheme." During the Great Depression, in 1934, Macy's Department Stores fought Macmillan [3] over the price of Gone with the Wind. (NPR)

This week's New York Times Magazine features Robert Caro, who has been writing a biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson for over three decades. A slideshow gives us a view of Caro's methodical work process [4].

Novelist Toby Litt considers the future: "Literature isn’t alien to technology, literature is technological to begin with [5]." (Granta)

Meanwhile, Wired offers a glimpse inside the Chinese factory where Apple's iPads are manufactured [6].

Netherland author Joseph O’Neill looks at the life and work of Philip Roth, and the dangers of reading Roth's novels as autobiography [7]. (Atlantic)

Cristanne Miller's Reading In Time: Emily Dickinson and the Nineteenth Century—out next month from the University of Massachusetts Press—challenges common perceptions [8] about the New England poet. (UB Reporter)

Tom Scocca at Slate says it's time to say goodbye to Microsoft Word [9].

With so much of our personal lives online, novelist Jami Attenberg writes of the intricacies of controlling the narrative [10] in a modern relationship. (New York Times)

And the Tumblr created by Lapham's Quarterly offers dating advice for the twelfth century [11].