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:

Author Judy Blume announced today she is battling cancer [2]. (Atlantic Wire)

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections are displaying a daguerreotype of poet Emily Dickinson [3] it received from a collector in 2007. The image was taken around 1859 on a visit to Amherst College with Dickinson's friend Kate Scott Turner. Only one other confirmed adult photo of Dickinson exists. (New York Times)

With fact-checking in the headlines [4] both in politics and journalism, the Millions chased down links to key fact-checking stories across the literary landscape.

September is Banned Books Month, and all month PEN American will feature authors discussing censored work. Yesterday, poet Melissa Broder cast a gimlet eye on Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal [5]. (Daily PEN American)

Books reporter Julie Bosman has more on the heavy hitters coming out this fall [6], including new work from Ian McEwan, J. K. Rowling, and Michael Chabon. (New York Times)

Meanwhile, with so many books out just now, many from first-time authors, Nichole Bernier answers the question, "Does publishing a novel change your life? [7]" (Beyond the Margins)

A chance discovery in a used bookshop led A. N. Devers to examine the curious life of artist Charles Altamont Doyle [8], institutionalized father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (Lapham's Quarterly)

Alice Bolin looks at the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop using the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s great break-up song “Maps” [9] as entry point. (Paris Review Daily)