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 Banned Books Week, the Los Angeles Times created a gallery of banned and challenged books [2], including Ralph Ellison’s National Book Award-winning novel Invisible Man, and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. (Los Angeles Times)

Meanwhile, GalleyCat gathered excerpts of the books that were most often challenged this year [3], including Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Looking for Alaska by John Green.

Forbes looks at how new digital tools are reinvigorating poetry. [4]

Jason Diamond considers the merits of Beautiful Losers [5]—a 1966 novel by famed songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen. (Flavorwire)

Wallace Stevens wrote poetry on slips of paper [6] while strolling to his office; Truman Capote refused to start or finish anything on a Friday—Maria Popova showcases these and other odd habits of writers at Brain Pickings.

Today is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthday, and to mark the occasion, Byliner posted Fitzgerald’s 1920 story “Benediction.” [7]