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:

Barnes & Noble has partnered with Samsung [2], who will design the latest incarnation of the bookseller’s Nook e-reader. (Digital Book World)

The New York Review of Books recently posted a series of comments directed at the Central Intelligence Agency’s new Twitter handle [3], criticizing the agency’s controversial interrogation tactics. (Wire)

Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin has offered two fans the chance to have an ill-fated character named for each of them [4] in an upcoming book in exchange for the fans’ twenty-thousand-dollar donations to the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary and the Food Depot of Santa Fe, New Mexico. (ABC News)

Actress and Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o will star [5] in the upcoming adaptation of Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah, while Michael Gambon has joined the cast of the BBC adaptation [6] of J. K. Rowling’s adult novel The Casual Vacancy. (GalleyCat, Bookseller)

Journalist Kat Kinsman of CNN [7] becomes the latest to challenge Ruth Graham of Slate [8], who wrote recently that adults should be ashamed to admit to reading young adult literature.

London’s iconic Foyles bookstore relocated over the weekend [9] to a new location just down the street from its original location on Charing Cross Road, where it opened eighty-five years ago. (Guardian)

Meanwhile, clothing retailer Urban Outfitters has opened a new branch that contains a book store [10]—along with a hair salon, coffee bar, and record store—near Herald Square in New York City. (Shelf Awareness)