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:

Amazon has launched its Kindle Store in Mexico [2]. (GalleyCat)

The United States Open Tennis Championships is ongoing, and Jason Diamond considers David Foster Wallace’s contributions to tennis literature [3]. (Flavorwire)

With the Nuyorican Poets Cafe celebrating its fortieth anniversary [4], the Wall Street Journal looks at New York City’s vibrant poetry community.

Liberty Hardy found Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking in the middle of a road [5], and ponders how it arrived there: “This copy belonged to a mermaid, who was kidnapped from the Piscataqua River, and thrown in a tank in the back of a truck. She threw it out in the hopes that someone would find it and follow the trail to where she was being kept.” (Book Riot)

Carolyn Kellogg showcases a creative idea Sarabande Books employed to market a new title [6]—to promote Kyle Minor’s forthcoming book Praying Drunk the publisher created shot glasses. (Los Angeles Times)

Adam Gopnik makes a case for humanities in the college classroom, [7] and the importance of the English major. (New Yorker)

Alberto Rios has been named Arizona’s first poet laureate [8]. (NBC Latino)