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:

Novelist John Banville will revive Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe [2] character for a book coming out from Holt next year under Banville’s pen name, Benjamin Black. (GalleyCat)

In response to Paulo Coelho's criticism of James Joyce, Alexander Nazaryan has some choice words [3] for the Brazilian novelist. (New York Daily News)

Poet CAConrad intends to open the Philadelphia Poetry Hotel [4], which will provide housing to low-income poets.

The Guardian created a graphic of death scenes in the stories [5] of Edgar Allan Poe.

In 1943, All the King's Men author Robert Penn Warren celebrated his thirty-eighth birthday with "a particularly insidious punch," and Paper and Salt has the recipe [6].

The huge sale at author Larry McMurtry's Texas book store [7] begins this Friday. (Los Angeles Times)

The San Diego Free Press explains "why we need more poetry in our lives [8]."