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:

Google has launched its e-bookstore in Russia [2]. (Digital Reader)

The New York Daily News details provocateur Bret Easton Ellis's attempts to grab attention via social media [3].

Recently, a public discussion on nature and poetry was held between renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass [4] at the American Museum of Natural History. (Our Amazing Planet)

Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, the Guardian attended a writing workshop to help authors pen more compelling sex scenes [5].

Also in London, the Charles Dickens Museum has reopened [6] after a complete period restoration. (Telegraph)

The Brooklyn Rail takes a close look at the low-residency MFA program at Bard College [7], now in its thirty-third year.

For the fifth-straight year, Largehearted Boy has compiled (and continually updates) every "Best Books of 2012" list [8] (and there are many).

If you're near Los Angeles, famed reading series Literary Death Match is filming its television pilot [9] tomorrow evening.