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:

To honor Veterans Day, GalleyCat details how to share books [2] with those active in military service.

Philip Roth informed a French publication he's finished with writing, and the Guardian lists other celebrated literary exits, including Shakespeare's withdrawal [3] to his home at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1611, just after premiering The Tempest.

Meanwhile, Flavorwire rounds up initial reactions by literary figures to Philip Roth's news [4].

CIA head David Petraeus recently resigned after an FBI investigation discovered an affair with writer Paula Broadwell, and in light of this, Emma Keller asks, "Is there a code of ethics for biographers?" [5] (Guardian)

"Second books are precarious but crucial, both for the poet and for the reader interested in a poet’s oeuvre. They suggest, for one thing, that the poet won't be a one-hit wonder." Lisa Russ Spaar examines sophomore efforts [6]. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

"The pleasure billows off his pages like waves of ­vanilla-scented body lotion from a lap dancer bombed on Ecstasy." Author Walter Kirn reviews Samson Graham-Muñoz's latest, [7]The String Theory Quartet, the much-anticipated follow-up to Dr. Pitcher’s Experimental Mistress. (Spoiler: Satire.) (New York Times)

With the publishing industry seemingly contracting [8], Scott Timberg argues the federal government should step up its support of the arts. (Salon)

In case you missed novelist Don DeLillo speaking at the Chicago Public Library [9], WBEZ posted the audio.

Isaiah Sheffer, the Founding Artistic Director of Symphony Space [10], and host of public radio's Selected Shorts, has passed away at the age of seventy-six.