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:

With the news that the National Security Agency—working with other federal agencies—has been allegedly listening in on all of America's phone and Internet activity, Melville House asks: "Is Amazon one of the companies working with the NSA to spy on you? [2]"

In a personal essay, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer discusses how our intimacy with technology is shaping our humanity [3]. (New York Times)

The first images have surfaced of Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice [4], which is being filmed now Los Angeles. (Rope of Silicon)

Typographer Abelardo Gonzalez has created a free, digital font called OpenDyslexic [5], which helps people with dyslexia read books. (GalleyCat)

This past Friday, Amazon made its Kindles available in China [6]. (Shelf Awareness)

Natasha Trethewey's tenure as United States Poet Laureate [7] will continue into a second term. (Clarion Ledger)

Today marks the eighty-fifth birthday of famed author Maurice Sendak [8]. (Guardian)