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:

After a weeklong hospitalization, Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez has returned to his home [2] in Mexico City. (Guardian)

The BBC examines some new ways in which British libraries are attempting to draw visitors [3].

Meanwhile, Oxford University Press will offer free access in the United States to online products [4], including many reference materials, next week for National Library Week. (GalleyCat)

At NPR's Code Switch, poet Kima Jones discusses how her identity as a queer poet of color is integral [5] to her work, and will be leading an audience-based Twitter poetry session today at noon EST. Users can follow along or chime in with the hashtag #CSPoetry. (NPR)

While the Los Angeles Festival of Books doesn’t begin until the weekend, the Los Angeles Times has compiled a list of literary events going on today and tomorrow [6] to appease those who just can’t wait.

The LA Weekly takes a look at poet Stephen Kalinich [7], whose experimental album A World of Peace Must Come—produced in collaboration with the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson in 1969—will be rereleased later this month. 

Joining in the effort to combat gender-based marketing [8] of books to children, the Guardian has begun assembling a photographic list of fictional heroines and their male fans [9]. (Skinny)

Joan Didion reviews Astonish Me [10], the new novel about the life of a ballet dancer in the 1970s, by Maggie Shipstead. (Electric Literature)

Meanwhile, Elaine Blair reviews Jenny Offill’s new novel [11], Dept. of Speculation, for the New York Review of Books.