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:

Massive attendance at a Junot Díaz reading and book signing last night in New York City reached near riot proportions [2]. (Color Lines)

Riverhead Books, Junot Díaz's publisher, posted photos of the huge crowds [3] on its Facebook page.

Third-wave feminist author Naomi Wolf’s new book Vagina has come under sharp criticism [4], yet Kat Stoeffel comes to The Beauty Myth author's defense. (New York)

Meanwhile, the Internet is aflutter after discovering Apple's iBookstore censors the word "vagina [5]." (Mike Cane's xBlog)

"She died thirty years ago, the last of the English-language Modernists, plagued by bitterness and an apartment full of roaches." [6] Big Think remembers Djuna Barnes.

Wendy McClure writes of visiting a log cabin built where the book Little House on the Prairie takes place [7], as well as the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum (and there are five other Laura Ingalls Wilder homesites). (Writers' Houses)

Writer and filmmaker Gretl Claggett has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a short film called “Happy Hour,” based on a poem. The film explores memory of childhood sex abuse and will be narrated by Julianne Moore [8].

The first event of PEN America's annual Lit Crawl [9] starts tonight in New York City, with twenty-three more events [10] scheduled for September 15.