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:

Shelf Awareness reports Apple's new iPhone may improve [2] the e-reading experience.

During the first two weeks of October, the editors of HarperCollins’ science fiction and fantasy imprint, Harper Voyager, are reading unagented manuscripts [3]. (GalleyCat)

Amazon, which owns Audible, has introduced a new technology that synchs Kindle e-books with Audible audiobooks [4]. (New York Daily News)

Laura Miller explains why the HBO show The Wire is not, in fact, anything like a Victorian novel [5]. (Salon)

Appearing for the first time in English, the late author Chava Rosenfarb writes the untold story of Simkha-Bunim Shayevitch, and "the great epic poem of the Holocaust. [6]" (Tablet)

The Los Angeles Times looks at the difficulties of adapting classic literature [7], in particular, casting actors as timeless characters.

Today would be Roald Dahl's ninety-sixth birthday [8], and to mark the occasion, eight of his novels have been made available in the United States as e-books. (Sacramento Bee)

Charles Bernstein remembers Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko [9], who passed away suddenly yesterday. (Harriet)