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 New Yorker posted poet Paul Muldoon’s eulogy for the late Seamus Heaney [2], delivered in Dublin yesterday.

Rosanna Warren remembers John Hollander [3]. (Kenyon Review)

This weekend the New York Times Magazine visited with Elsa and Norman Rush at their home [4]. A National Book Award-winning author, Norman Rush’s new novel Subtle Bodies will be published next week.

Meanwhile, in Bookforum, editor and author Ed Park looks at Thomas Pynchon’s latest, Bleeding Edge [5].

Amazon’s Kindle offers a new feature called MatchBook [6] that allows users to buy less expensive digital editions of print books they own. (paidContent)

“The editor is tired and busy.” The Review Review provides tips on submitting manuscripts [7] and interacting with magazine editors.

The lead actors in the film adaptation of E. L. James’s Fifty Shades series have been cast—Dakota Johnson and Charlie Hunnam [8]. (Word and Film)

Open Culture found an audio clip of Joey Ramone [9] singing a selection of John Cage’s adaptation of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake; and also showcases a section of poet Charles Bukowski’s 1968 FBI surveillance file [10].