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:

Publishers Weekly reports on the closing arguments in the DOJ price-fixing lawsuit against Apple [2].

Meanwhile, All Things Digital features a slide show of the DOJ’s and Apple's final summations [3].

In other legal news, a salesman for Wiley is charged with the theft of almost three million dollars [4] in books. (Jersey Journal)

Author Khaled Hosseini recently spoke with the Huffington Post about growing up in Afghanistan, and the Taliban [5].

Despite Darren Aronofsky’s involvement as director, HBO has passed on author Michael Chabon’s World War II-era series [6]Hobgoblin [6]. (Vulture)

“We escaped Poland in 1981 at night with only a few suitcases, our most important papers sewn into the lining: my parents’ diplomas from the polytechnic, our birth certificates.” In light of the Boston bombings, novelist Karolina Waclawiak discusses the immigrant experience in America [7]. (Rumpus)

Poet Elizabeth Alexander remembers her late husband, the artist Ficre Ghebreyesus [8]. (Boston Review)

Actor, director, and author James Franco needs your money [9] to create a film adaptation of Palo Alto, a collection of Franco's stories published by Scribner in 2011.