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:

The Wall Street Journal shines a light on a company called ResultSource, which purchases vast amounts of an author's books to game the bestseller lists [2]. (Amazon announced it stopped conducting business with ResultSource.)

Sarah Jaffe calls out the New York Times for gender disparity in its coverage of books [3] and culture. (Columbia Journalism Review)

Graywolf press has launched three-city poetry tours for its authors [4]. (Shelf Awareness)

Emily Witt discovered a peculiar connection [5] between Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. (n+1)

Martín Espada recently discussed the powerful significance of poetry with Bill Moyers [6] on PBS.

Was the editor just being nice? Should you submit to them again? Seth Fried explains how to interpret your rejection letters [7]. (Tin House)

The Times Literary Supplement looks at the three-volume Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 1919–1967, and how despite long careers the two men are remembered as War Poets [8].

If you're in the United Kingdom, now you can send a letter home with Jane Austen stamps [9]. (Huffington Post UK)

Flavorwire lists the ten sexiest books of all time [10].

Meanwhile, the Daily Beast uncovered a shirtless Mark Twain [11], among others.