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:

Indian police arrested poet Kanwal Bharti [2] after he criticized his government on Facebook. (Wall Street Journal)

Bowker reports women buyers accounted for 58 percent of book spending [3] in 2012. (GalleyCat)

Rebecca Mead weighs in on the vitriolic response [4] to the Bank of England’s decision to display Jane Austen on the British ten-pound note. (New Yorker)

Michele Filgate examines how writers are using social media as a type of public diary. [5] (Salon)

In Hollywood news, a film adaptation of Ann Leary’s The Good House [6] is in the works with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro in the lead roles. (Boston Magazine)

Meanwhile, a Tumblr has been created that showcases the books that appear on the new Netflix series Orange is the New Black [7].

BuzzFeed explains why you should read Zadie Smith [8].

NPR features Robert Pinsky, who discusses the inherent music of poetry [9], and the pleasures of reading aloud.