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:

Workers employed by Amazon in Germany [2] have called a strike, demanding better pay. (GalleyCat)

E Ink has introduced a flexible large format electronic display [3]. (Yahoo! Finance)

Bestselling author Dan Brown, whose new book Inferno is out today, hangs upside down to combat writer's block [4]. (NewsComAu)

A new Pat Conroy memoir, The Death of Santini, will be released this October [5]. (Boston Herald)

Flavorwire gathered the handwritten notes and novel outlines [6] from several authors, including James Salter’s outline for Light Years.

J. Bryan Lowder, who has never read The Great Gatsby, decided to try and write a convincing high school essay about Fitzgerald's masterpiece [7] after watching the new screen adaptation. (Slate)

In reviewing Daniel Levin Becker's 2012 book, Many Subtle Channels, Sara Lodge reports that OuLiPo [8], which began with a group of experimental writers and emerged in France in the 1960s, is alive and well. (Weekly Standard)

Sara Vilkomerson visits with Judy Blume at her home in Florida, [9] and discusses Blume's long, strange relationship with Hollywood. (Entertainment Weekly)