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:

A new recording of Flannery O’Connor has surfaced [2]. (It was found in a University of Louisiana filing cabinet last spring.) (Deep South Magazine)

Time features an exclusive video of author David Mitchell discussing adapting Cloud Atlas [3] for film with the Wachowski siblings and director Tom Tykwer.

Meanwhile, Word & Film lists the five best movies about the lives of poets [4] that haven't been made—yet.

Author Edan Lepucki examines the defining characteristics of the literary fiction genre [5]: "A dog barks, someone eats a watermelon, a car drives away." (Millions)

The Guardian explains how to write the first draft of a novel in one month [6].

A villa on the French Rivera—where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald stayed [7]—is for sale. (Curbed)

"Coleridge was a dope fiend, Joyce and Faulkner were high-functioning drunks, Sylvia Plath a hot bipolar mess [8]." Dr. John J. Ross has the skinny on the illnesses of famous authors. (Huffington Post)

Book Riot showcases the "coolest bookshelves EVER [9]."