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:

In an effort to tighten its policies, Amazon is changing how it handles its affiliate links to free Kindle books [2]. (paidContent)

Meanwhile, Amazon warns Apple handheld users [3] there's a bug in the current update of its e-reader app that wipes out the device's Kindle library. (CNET)

With pending legislation deciding the outcome, David Axelrod argues that Florida needs a state poet laureate [4]. (Daytona Beach News-Journal)

Mediabistro announced it's hosting a book club in April [5], and will choose four authors from a pool of applications.

"Be ruthless." Open Culture features F. Scott Fitzgerald's tips on how to write fiction [6].

OUPblog looks at the new BBC/HBO adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's Parade’s End [7].

And the Paris Review Daily visits the venerable Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts [8].

United Kingdom's Hay Festival has created a free podcast [9] of past literary festivals—its first twenty-three episodes include Harold Pinter, Ted Hughes, Margaret Atwood, and many others. (Telegraph)

Today is Irwin Shaw's birthday [10]. (Open Road Media)

Sal Robinson and Geoffrey Pullum bravely defend the adverb [11]. (Melville House)