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:

For the next two weeks, Roxane Gay will guest blog for the Nation—yesterday’s post highlights the slight amount of book review coverage slated to writers of color [2], and also discusses Jesmyn Ward’s memoir Men We Reaped. (Jesmyn Ward is profiled in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.)

Bestselling author Jennifer Weiner [3]discusses her efforts to encourage the New York Times to increase its coverage of commercial fiction. (Salon)

The United States government has granted $150,000 to help maintain the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center [4] in Connecticut. (Big Story)

As part of its American Icons series, the most recent episode of Studio 360 featured Richard Wright’s powerful novel Native Son [5].

And on Weekend Edition, author Cheryl Strayed revealed how her bestselling memoir Wild introduced her to a half-sister [6]—who made the discovery after checking out Strayed’s book from a library.

Open Culture rounded up seven short stories listed as favorites by famed author Jorge Luis Borges [7]—freely available online.

Taking part in the Hogarth Shakespeare project [8], Margaret Atwood will write a prose version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Howard Jacobson will tackle The Merchant of Venice. (Telegraph)

Harper Lee has settled with her former agent [9]Samuel Pinkus over the rights to To Kill a Mockingbird. (New York Daily News)