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:

Hachette Book Group has named Michael Pietsch its new CEO [2], replacing David Young beginning in April. Pietsch has served as publisher of Little, Brown since 2006. (New York Times)

"Dear Wikipedia, I am Philip Roth." [3] The master novelist sets the crowd-sourced website straight regarding his inspiration for The Human Stain. (New Yorker)

With semi-annual New York Fashion Week just ended, formal model Jennifer Sky writes of the pressing need for the unionization of fashion models and ending the exploitation of the underage [4]. (Guernica)

Architectural designer John H. Locke has transformed pay phone booths into lending libraries [5]. (New York Times)

On his Tumblr, bestselling author John Green has choice words for Amazon's Jeff Bezos [6].

Researchers at Stanford are studying how reading a Jane Austen novel alters the brain [7]—the pioneering field of literary neuroscience. (Stanford Report)

If you're near New York City this evening, the Rumpus is throwing a party [8], including Colson Whitehead and actor Andrew McCarthy (Millions); and as part of Under the Influence: Writers on Film, author Nick Flynn will screen the 1971 film Harold and Maude [9], followed by a conversation with Michael Maren about the adaptation of Flynn's memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.

"We are evaluating a piece of writing. We are not evaluating a person. [10]" Erika Anderson discusses the writing workshop. (Electric Literature)

Flavorwire rounded up several amazing spaces converted to bookstores [11], including one Wisconsin store housed in a former manure tank.