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: 

Today marks the one-hundred-and-fifty-first birthday of novelist and short story writer Edith Wharton, and Huffington Post contributor Zoë Triska enumerates the eleven reasons why the Age of Innocence author was awesome [2].

Amazon has continued to extend its international reach today by launching the Kindle in Canada [3]. (The Bookseller)

Readers have filed a class action lawsuit against cyclist Lance Armstrong [4] and several publishers, stating that, had they known Armstrong was using performance-enhancing drugs, they would not have bought and read his books. (Los Angeles Times)

Publisher and Guardian contributor Peter Mayer pays tribute to Peter Carson [5], the late Penguin editor in chief who died on January 9.

A lost Carl Sandberg poem has been found [6] in the archives of the University of Illinois. (Huffington Post)

The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon has announced that it will adapt Hilary Mantel’s two Man Booker Prize-winning novels [7] about Tudor England, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, for the stage. (New York Times)

Emily Temple pairs ten best-selling novels with the directors who should adapt them [8] into film. (Flavorwire)

In a follow-up to his initial blog post on British and American English, novelist and translator Tim Parks offers more fascinating thoughts on editing, linguistics, and the international language police [9]. (New York Review of Books)

The letters spelling “Borders Books & Music,” recently removed from the flagship store in Ann Arbor, Michigan—and thought to be some of the last remaining signage of the recently defunct bookseller—are being auctioned on eBay [10] until January 31. All proceeds will be donated to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation. (GalleyCat)