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:

Indian-born author Sushmita Banerjee, who wrote a memoir of escaping the Taliban [2], was taken from her home by armed gunman and murdered in Afghanistan. (Reuters)

Tech start-up Oyster has launched a Netflix-like service for books [3]. (Forbes)

This week’s New Yorker contains previously unpublished work by Flannery O’Connor [4].

The reviews of Shane Salerno’s Salinger documentary have arrived: Dana Stevens writes, “No goddamn good [5]” (Slate); David Edelstein claims that if J. D. Salinger were around “he’d come after Salerno with a hatchet [6]” (Vulture); and A. O. Scott looks at the film [7] for the New York Times.

Meanwhile, correspondence between J. D. Salinger and Marjorie Sheard [8] will be displayed at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City beginning September 10.

In Hollywood news, actor Rachel Weisz will create a screen adaptation [9] of Jennifer Gilmore’s recent novel The Mothers. (Melville House)

And Christina Hendricks and Allison Janney will star [10] in Campbell Scott’s screen adaptation of Joan Didion’s A Book of Common Prayer. (Vulture)

Author Jennifer Vanderbes argues the evolutionary merits of narrative storytelling [11]. (Atlantic)

BuzzFeed lists how to plan a literary wedding [12].