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 story by bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami [2] is available free online at the New Yorker. (GalleyCat)

Hector Tobar reports that the Texas Book Festival, which is ongoing, has received bad press over a lack of diversity in this year’s roster of more than two hundred authors. Festival literary director Steph Opitz answered criticism [3] in a letter to the Texas Observer, stating, “I, too, am disappointed that there is not more diversity in this year’s line-up.” (Los Angeles Times)

Fast Company explains the importance of your workspace, and what changes can improve performance [4].

Author Pat Conroy is offering to give away film rights to his follow-up to The Great Santini, [5] which starred Robert Duvall in the 1979 adaptation. If a film is made of his new book The Death of Santini, Conroy hopes the offer will persuade Duvall and his co-stars to reprise their roles. (USA Today)

The Guardian considers science fiction hero Ray Bradbury’s unknown legacy of realist stories [6].

“To think about a place has always been a way into a story.” Novelist Donna Tartt speaks with Laura Miller [7] at Salon.

Meanwhile, the San Francisco Chronicle looks at how certain famed authors—including Donna Tartt, Tom Wolfe, and Mark Twain [8]—wear a trademark mode of dress.

The current issue of Poetry includes four letters by Robert Creeley [9].