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:

Barnes & Noble has created a service for self-published authors [2]—NOOK Press. (GalleyCat)

The New York Daily News has choice words for actor and Yale PhD student James Franco's literary criticism [3]: “Franco doesn’t do much more than summarize the plots of novels with little more critical scrutiny than you’d see in a middle-school book report.”

Jon Tribble visits the life and work of poet Jake Adam York [4], who died unexpectedly last year at age forty. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

“You create elaborate disaster fantasies that you project onto your life. [5]” On his blog, author Alexander Chee lists the signs that may indicate you're a fiction writer.

From “countdown clocks” to a “chosen one,” Lit Reactor lists ten storytelling clichés to avoid [6].

“I despaired. It was time to despair. I was on version thirty-three.” Terese Svoboda details the path to her first novel [7]. (Quivering Pen)

Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett [8]—for the Los Angeles Times, critic Carolyn Kellogg discusses a seeming trend of books “pairing cultural masters.”

Meanwhile, Robert Pinsky examines the poems and literary friendship of Robert Bridges and Gerard Manley Hopkins [9].