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:

Federal judge Denny Chin certified the class-action status of authors suing Google [2] over its scanning of twenty-million books. (Businessweek)

Laura Hazard Owen lists the five topics industry-insiders will be discussing next week [3] at BookExpo America. (paidContent)

The Guardian has created an interactive map of the United Kingdom's and Ireland's celebrated literary locations [4].

Summer's here, and Flavorwire rounded up ten new must-read books for June [5].

Author and University of Delaware English professor Ben Yagoda offers the last word on comma usage [6] (unless readers keep adding comments). (Lingua Franca)

This week marked the hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Cheever [7], and the New Yorker revisits the life and work of the master stylist.

A rare, first edition of the Book of Mormon was stolen from an Arizona bookstore [8] over Memorial Day weekend. The uninsured book's estimated value is one hundred thousand dollars. (Los Angeles Times)

The Onion reports "the nation's poets may make a statement on wisdom's supple strength of skin as early as late July [9]."