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:

The final version of the House-Senate tax deal scraps the provision to treat graduate student tuition waivers as taxable income [2]. Earlier this month, graduate students across the country protested [3] the bill. (Bloomberg)

Vivian Gornick, Meghan O’Rourke, Parul Sehgal, and Heidi Julavits, among others, weigh in on women and power in the workplace [4] and the conversation about sexual harassment. (New York Times Magazine)

“I don’t compare myself to anybody. Know what you like. Stick to it.” Editor and agent Marie Dutton Brown [5] discusses her longtime career in the publishing industry. (Shondaland)

“He saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermione’s family.” Based on an analysis of all seven Harry Potter books, a predictive text keyboard has written a Harry Potter story [6] entitled “Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash [7].” (Guardian)

Jennifer Senior considers the acknowledgments sections of book [8], where “the wretchedness of book-writing finally comes tumbling out” in a “combination of neuroticism and relief, pride and latent terror.” (New York Times)

As 2017 comes to a close, Bustle recommends thirty-five books to look out for in 2018 [9].

“Well into the twenty-first century, he warned that the United States was again coming to resemble its nineteenth-century self in terms of violence, poverty, inequity and plutocratic rule.” Stephan Phelan imagines how E. L. Doctorow would react to the Trump presidency [10]; Doctorow died in 2015. (Boston Review)

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, writers Kiese Laymon and Aisha Sabatini Sloan [11] talk about identity versus influence and pushing against heteronormativity in their work.