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:

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tablet engraved with thirteen verses of the Odyssey, which they believe might be the oldest written record of Homer’s work [2]. The clay slab was found near the Temple of Zeus in the ancient city of Olympia. (Guardian)

Andrew Davies is adapting Jane Austen’s unfinished novel “Sanditon” into an eight-part miniseries [3] for PBS and iTV. (Variety)

Jacob Levin describes turning to Mary Gaitskill after the death of a friend [4] to find a “space in which our ephemerality is at last undeniable, one in which we are finally permitted our ugliness because it is written on our faces, a room in which we are allowed fully to live and die.” (Slate)

Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Nancy Pelosi, Jeb Bush, and others weigh in on their favorite political books [5]. (Washington Post)

Newly appointed Paris Review [6]editor Emily Nemens talks with [6] Vanity Fair [6] about her plans for the publication, reading slush, and the state of contemporary literature.

Poets Kate Greene and Anastasios Karnazes describe spending a night writing poetry next to an 88-inch cyclotron [7] in the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (Berkeley Lab)

The New York Times considers Robert Gottlieb’s new essay collection [8], Near-Death Experiences… And Others, which covers the editor’s “long career in the enchanted forest of hardcovers and best-seller lists as editor in chief of Simon & Schuster, and, later, Alfred A. Knopf…”

Malibu poet laureate Ricardo Means Ybarra has organized an initiative in which pizzas will be delivered with poems [9] written by local students. (Malibu Times)