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:

A new book—Brad Stone’s The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon—reports that Amazon’s stance toward small publishers “was called the Gazelle Project after Mr. Bezos said Amazon ‘should approach these small publishers the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle [2].’” (Shelf Awareness)

Meanwhile, Hector Tobar looks at how Amazon and other online booksellers are reacting to compaints over pornographic content in self-published e-books [3]. (Los Angeles Times)

And at a Barnes & Noble in California, firefighters helped a woman deliver a baby [4]. (Huffington Post)

“When my father was old and I was still young, I came into some money. Though it was money ‘earned’ for work done, it seemed, both to my father and me, no different than a win on the lottery.” Novelist Zadie Smith writes of taking her father to France and Italy [5] after the publication of her first novel White Teeth. (New York Review of Books)

A new book, Evelyn Barish’s The Double Life of Paul de Man [6] reveals that the renowned literary theorist and Yale professor was a convicted criminal. (Chronicle of Higher Education)

The second volume of Mark Twain’s autobiography is out [7]. (PBS)

If you haven’t seen enough of Mr. Clemens, Open Culture found an image of Mark Twain with Nikola Tesla [8].