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:

Zadie Smith mourns the impact of climate change [2] on England’s weather. (New York Review of Books)

In response to novelist Hanif Kureishi’s recent dismissal of creative writing programs, Jeanette Winterson, Gary Shteyngart, Chang-Rae Lee, Michael Cunningham, and other authors offer advice to emerging writers [3]. (Guardian)

A six-million-dollar donation [4] to the New York Public Library was announced yesterday, as demonstrators gathered to protest a plan to renovate and remove research materials from the library's main branch in midtown Manhattan. (Melville House)

Meanwhile, a study by the Pew Research Internet Project has found that a majority of Americans—almost 80 percent—are utilizing libraries regularly [5]. (NPR)

La Casa Azul bookstore in East Harlem, New York, is coordinating donations [6] to community members affected by Wednesday’s building explosion in the neighborhood. (Shelf Awareness)

Animator Jesse Benjamin has created a cartoon adaptation [7] of a McSweeney’s humor piece by author Mike Lacher titled “In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero." (GalleyCat)

The Millions has released a list of February's ten bestelling books, with Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch still topping the chart [8].

Author Leslie Jamison and poet Adam Kirsch square off [9] over the question of happiness in writing. (New York Times)