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:

Poet Richard Blanco will read an original composition [2] for president Barack Obama’s second inauguration. (New York Times)

Novelist Hari Kunzru reports on an alarming political climate in Hungary [3], and how it's shaping that country's cultural institutions, intellectuals, and writers. (New Yorker)

Crime writer Patricia Cornwell is suing her former financial manager [4] for upwards of one hundred million dollars. The Boston Globe reveals the suit involves "multi-million-dollar homes, a helicopter, and a lost Ferarri."

Over seven hundred publishers have agreed to participate in JSTOR's Register & Read program [5], which begins today, and provides free access to journal articles. (Inside Higher Ed)

"The standards of craft in personal writing should not be lower than in fiction [6]. There is no reason why something true should be sloppily or boringly written." Katie Roiphe weighs in on the recent kerfuffle [7] over the ubiquity of memoir. (Slate)

Maria Semple's 2012 novel, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, will be adapted for film [8] by Annapurna Pictures and Hunger Games-producer Color Force. Michael Weber and Scott Neustadter, who penned (500) Days of Summer, will write the screenplay. (Hollywood Reporter)

In other Hollywood news, Charlize Theron may be cast [9] alongside Robert Downey, Jr. in Paul Thomas Anderson's film version of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice. (Slash Film)

The Atlantic suggests that if you've written a lot of email over the course of a year, maybe you could write a novel [10].