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 Library of Congress [2]—its buildings, collections, archives, and website—are closed [3]. (GalleyCat)

Penguin and Random House have merged multiple audio divisions [4] creating the Penguin Random House Audio Group, which will be helmed by Amanda D’Acierno. (Shelf Awareness)

Amazon announced it’s creating seventy thousand full-time jobs [5] in the United States for the holiday shopping season. (Yahoo! Finance)

San Francisco-based startup Scribd is launching a Netflix-like subscription [6] service for books, and partnering with HarperCollins. (Fast Company)

Ruth Graham looks at the life and work of Ronald Lane Latimer [7], who edited the poetry of William Carlos Williams, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and Wallace Stevens. (Poetry Foundation)

“I saw a man get stabbed on a sunny afternoon in the West Village on my twenty-fourth birthday.” In an excerpt from the new collection of essays, Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, Cheryl Strayed writes of her days in the Big Apple [8]. (Salon)

For an art exhibit in Toronto, David Bowie lists his top one hundred must-read books [9]. (Open Book Toronto)