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:

Amtrak has launched the official application for its new writers residency program, and Melville House has collected some writers' responses to the application [2].

Director Richard Ayoade, who previously directed the film adaptation of Joe Dunthorne’s Submarine, brings his adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella The Double to New York City for screenings in March [3]. (Electric Literature)

Meanwhile, author Tom Rob Smith’s mystery-thriller, The Farm, will be adapted for the big screen [4] by BBC Films and Shine Pictures. (Variety)

NPR interviews Walter Kim, author of the novels Up in the Air and Thumbsucker, about his friendship with Clark Rockefeller [5], a German-born con artist and murderer.  

Roddy Doyle talks in a New York Times video [6] about how old age has influenced his fiction.

Richard Lea of the Guardian considers the character judgment implicit in books readers choose to avoid [7]. 

Barnes & Noble plans to close its store in downtown Royal Oak, Michigan [8] in April, five months after leasing its second floor to a local software company. (Metro Times)

Twenty years after the poet's death, the Los Angeles Times reexamine’s Charles Bukowski’s image as “laureate of the American lowlife [9].”