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:

To help cover Marjorie Sheard's nursing home expenses, her family sold a collection of 1940s correspondence between Sheard and the young J. D. Salinger [2]to the Morgan Library. For seven decades the letters were stored in a tucked-away shoebox. (New York Times)

Meanwhile, Truman Capote's marked-up Breakfast at Tiffany's manuscript [3] is for sale. (Los Angeles Times)

After five years, Colorado-based Mud Luscious Press has shuttered [4]. (Publishers Weekly)

Digital Book World showcases its e-book bestseller list [5] for the first quarter of 2013—Hachette leads the pack.

After five years at the helm of Granta, editor John Freeman will soon depart [6] the literary journal, and move back to New York City to teach at Columbia University. (GalleyCat)

In other staffing news, Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald [7] has been named publicity director for indy powerhouse McSweeney’s. On her blog, author Roxane Gay details what it was like to work with Isaac.

In a recent speech at the Digital Minds Conference, Neil Gaiman offered key advice to authors [8]. (Forbes)

In Second Acts, a Los Angeles Review of Books feature that revisits sophomore books of poetry, Lisa Russ Spaar considers the work of Beckian Fritz Goldberg and Andrew Feld [9].

For the American Scholar, poet Donald Hall remembers motoring across postwar Europe [10] with his first wife Kirby.

PEN World Voices [11]kicks off April 29—the weeklong festival features readings, events, and workshops across New York City, including a post-MFA workshop with Lynn Tilman [12].