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:

Margaret Atwood remembers Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing [2], who died yesterday at age ninety-four. (Guardian)

According to reports in Hungary, right-wing extremists have destroyed a statue of poet Radnóti Miklós [3] and are burning his books. Radnóti Miklós died during the Holocaust and was the subject of the 1989 film Forced March. (Kapcsolat)

Drawing from his new book My Mistake: A Memoir, veteran editor Daniel Menaker looks behind the curtain [4] of the publishing industry. (Vulture)

Meanwhile, authors Roxane Gay, Ayelet Waldman, Julia Fierro, Adelle Waldman, and Lydia Millet [5] discuss sexism in literary culture. (Brooklyn Based)

In light of recent high-profile titles that venture over five hundred pages [6]—including Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, and Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire—Laura Miller explains: “Long novels have never, ever been out of favor with readers.” (Salon)

In an excerpt from The Writer’s Notebook II, author Elissa Schappell offers advice [7] on story endings. (Tin House)

Jacob Mikanowski considers the possibilities and problems of the digitization of literature [8]. (Los Angeles Review of Books)