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:

Graham Nunn, author of five collections of poetry, and former artistic director of the Queensland Poetry Festival in Australia, has been accused of serial plagiarism [2]. (Brisbane Times)

In light of the new Salinger documentary, memoirist and novelist Joyce Maynard details her relationship with the reclusive author [3]. (New York Times)

Jonathan Franzen discusses the work of Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, as well as unfortunate aspects of contemporary society: “Jeff Bezos of Amazon may not be the antichrist [4], but he surely looks like one of the four horsemen.” (Guardian)

Former New Yorker editor Tina Brown will leave the Daily Beast [5] at the end of her contract, and has sold a memoir to Henry Holt’s Metropolitan Books entitled Media Beast. (GalleyCat)

Meanwhile, the venerable New Yorker is launching a redesign [6]. (New York Times)

If you missed PBS NewsHour Thursday, United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey took part in a poetry project that helps dementia patients [7]. (Raw Story)

An Ohio board of education president is calling for the ban of Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye. [8] (Huffington Post)

In an essay for T magazine, novelist Joshua Ferris explores the iconic male hero [9].