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 Barnes & Noble in Merced, California, may close in early 2014 [2]. (Shelf Awareness)

After a parent objected that the subject matter was inappropriate for teenagers, Neil Gaiman’s novel Neverwhere was banned [3] from a school library in Alamogordo, New Mexico. (Guardian)

The Authors Guild’s Booktalk Nation [4]—a service that helps authors supplement book tours—has embraced Google+ video hangouts [5]. (Yahoo! Finance)

In the wake of Alice Munro’s Nobel Prize for literature, the New Yorker gathered several writers and asked for their thoughts on Munro’s work [6]—including Sheila Heti, Lorrie Moore, and others.

Meanwhile, the Telegraph looks at the books of the twelve women writers who won the Nobel Prize for literature [7] before Munro.

Maria Bustillos considers the great James Thurber’s role in the genesis of creative nonfiction [8]. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

“Stress can change the size of your brain (and make it smaller).” Fast Company explains why often when we’re exhausted our creativity surges [9].