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:

Visitors to the vacation island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, will discover Edgartown Books reopened [2] (under new owners) beginning this Friday. (Martha's Vineyard Times)

Looking at the careers of one-time best-selling authors, such as Mary Augusta Ward, and Thomas Nelson Page, who are now obscure, Tom Vanderbilt asks, "Why is literary fame so unpredictable? [3]" (New Yorker)

Film director Peter Weir will adapt Jennifer Egan [4]'s 2006 novel, The Keep. (Cinema Blend)

Patti Smith will interview famed songwriter Neil Young [5] at the upcoming Bookexpo America in New York City.

Beginning next month, Esquire magazine will launch an e-book series called “Fiction for Men [6],” in collaboration with electronic publisher Open Road Integrated Media. (New York Times)

The Nation looks at the literary legacy of Kurt Vonnegut [7].

The Los Angeles Times reviews Long Beach Opera's new production of Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar [8], which is a meditation on poet Federico García Lorca's murder by fascists during the Spanish Civil War.

Gary Glazner, founder and director of the International Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, has developed a program that uses poetry to benefit dementia patients [9]. (Post-Crescent)