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:

Jacqueline Corso, a managing executive of Barnes & Noble’s Nook division [2], left the company. Corso’s is the most recent in a string of departures. (Digital Reader)

Meanwhile, Amazon is expanding its Kindle business in Brazil [3]. (Shelf Awareness)

The Pacific Standard reports that despite predictions of obsolescence, U. S. libraries are active and vital [4].

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Jason Diamond rounds up the greatest love affairs in literature [5], including the characters Robin Vote and Nora Flood in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood. (Flavorwire)

Michele Filgate speaks with author Olivia Laing about mythologies surrounding alcoholism and writing [6]. (BuzzFeed)

The Irish Times examines the last days of William Butler Yeats [7], who died seventy-five years ago in France.

At the New Yorker, Erin Overbey revisits Calvin Tomkins’s story “Living Well Is the Best Revenge [8],” which was first published in 1958, then expanded into a book in 1971, and recently reissued from MOMA.