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:

To celebrate its website’s fifth year in existence, Tor.com is giving away a digital anthology [2] of science fiction and fantasy. (GalleyCat)

On his blog, author and provocateur Seth Godin describes the “end of books [3].”

Is Hamlet a love story? Joshua Rothman considers the interpretation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet [4] posited by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster in their new book Stay, Illusion! (New Yorker)

Michele Filgate recounts how she accidentally set Stephen King’s Insomnia aflame [5]. (Paris Review Daily)

Because Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has purchased the Washington Post, [6] Allan Sloan suggests Bezos should reveal his politics. (Fortune)

Meanwhile, the Daily Show’s John Oliver theorizes why Jeff Bezos [7] purchased a major newspaper. (Wrap)

Jennie Yabroff parses the literary distinction between autobiography and memoir [8]. (Biographile)

Today is Sir Walter Scott’s birthday [9]—his personal journal is viewable online at the Morgan Library.