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:

This spring, the erotic bestselling series Fifty Shades… accounted for every one out of five adult print books sold [2], and in light of this, the Daily Beast looks at how this may alter publishing.

Meanwhile, Michelle Dean considers the unpublished erotica of Edith Wharton [3]. (Rumpus)

The New Republic examines how best to use public libraries [4] in an increasingly bookless culture.

Slate asks, "Why does the New Yorker publish so many pieces about the New Yorker? [5]"

Eli Horowitz, the former publisher of McSweeney's, has created a new yearlong project, an app that will deliver a "geo-located mobile serialized story [6]." Oddly, Horowitz doesn't own a smartphone. (BuzzFeed)

"This is one irony of the recent rise of Conceptual writing. Another is that a movement which is so committed to eliminating lyrical charisma has invested so heavily in the charisma of the poet as performer." Matvei Yankelevich writes an open letter [7] in response to Marjorie Perloff's Boston Review essay, "Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric.”  (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Actor Daniel Radcliffe will play the lead [8] in a screen adaptation of Joe Hill's 2010 best-selling novel, Horns. (Lit Reactor)

The Courier-Journal makes a pilgrimage to Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, where Henry David Thoreau lived in a cabin, and wrote of his monastic years in the woods, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life. [9]”

The California Repertory Company intends to mount a theatrical production of a combination of the work of the poet Charles Bukowski and composer Stephen Sondheim [10]. (Guardian)