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:

The Department of Justice has outlined proposed business practices for Apple to adapt [2] in the wake of its e-book price-fixing lawsuit. (All Things D)

Writer Michele Catalano’s home was searched by “joint terrorism task force” agents [3] reportedly because of keyword Internet searches for “backpacks” and “pressure cookers.” (GalleyCat)

Bowing to pressure from parents, a New York City public middle school removed Sherman Alexie’ [4]s National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian from the classroom. (New York Daily News)

For the Washington Post, Michael Dirda considers The Letters of T. S. Eliot [5].

Singer Kelly Clarkson purchased Jane Austen’s ring at auction [6], but is not allowed to take it out of the United Kingdom. (Telegraph)

“The same sort of loony thinking that once invested in perpet­ual motion machines leads the contemporary credulous to believe that financial wizardry can conjure something out of nothing.” Novelist Will Self argues for pessimism [7], especially in world affairs. (New Statesman)

Meanwhile, Sadie Stein showcases a shuttered Walmart in Texas that has been transformed into the largest one-story public library [8] in the nation. (Paris Review Daily)

Novelist Zadie Smith speaks with the Guardian’s book club [9] podcast.

And on the New Yorker’s fiction podcast, Donald Antrim reads Denis Johnson’s story “Work,” [10] which was first published in 1988.