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:

In light of the news that Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize [2] in literature, the Millions gets readers up to speed [3] on the beloved Canadian author; and Bookish offers an essential Alice Munro reading list [4].

Amazon workers in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, have settled a federal lawsuit [5] that concerned unpaid hours. (Shelf Awareness)

Bowker announced self-published titles with ISBN numbers increased 59 percent in 2012 [6], numbering almost four hundred thousand books. Out of all titles published with ISBN numbers in 2012, 40 percent were self-published. (GalleyCat)

Hachette has sued actor Stephen Baldwin [7] [8]for the return of a cash advance for a book manuscript due in 2009. (New York Daily News)

John Freeman—former editor of Granta—names five great books of literary criticism [9], including work by Virginia Woolf, and Joseph Brodsky. (Daily Beast)

David Biespiel reports on another shutdown in the news [10]—one that arose between critics and poets. (Rumpus)

Flavorwire looks at the musings of a teenage F. Scott Fitzgerald [11].

“I was a student in Elizabeth Hardwick’s creative writing class at Barnard College [12], along with Mona Simpson, Tama Janowitz, and Daphne Merkin.” Darryl Pinckney recalls the time in New York City when he spotted Hannah Arendt at Auden’s memorial service. (Threepenny Review)