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 federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit [2] brought by a group of independent bookstores against Amazon and other major publishers. (Shelf Awareness)

Phaidon has hired industry veteran Judith Regan to head a new multimedia imprint named Regan Arts [3]. (Publishers Weekly)

The National Library of Norway intends to scan every Norwegian book in existence [4], creating a digital “national memory bank.” (GalleyCat)

Critic David L. Ulin meditates on a recent James Wood essay that explores the “narrative implications of death [5].” (Los Angeles Times)

The New Yorker asked several contributors to name some of their favorite books of the year [6]. Among the titles listed are: poet Lucie Brock-Broido’s Stay, Illusion; Russell Banks’s new book of stories A Permanent Member of the Family; and Michelle Orange’s essay collection This Is Running for Your Life.

Emily M. Keeler reports on a recent public conversation between writers Sheila Heti and Jian Ghomeshi [7] concerning memoir in the age of Twitter. (Hazlitt)

A Charles Bukowski-themed bar [8] called Barkowski will open this Friday in Santa Monica, California. LAist writes, “It’s the bar equivalent of buying a Misfits shirt at Urban Outfitters.”