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 National Book Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2018 5 Under 35 awards [2], given annually to five debut fiction writers under the age of thirty-five. (Washington Post)

Read more about Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah [3], who was selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by Colson Whitehead, and his debut story collection, Friday Black, in the latest installment of Literary MagNet. (Poets & Writers)

Banned Books Week [4] kicked off yesterday.

“It’s like you’re looking at a Madonna tour. That’s the first thing that comes to mind.” Michelle Obama has announced the book tour [5] for her forthcoming memoir, Becoming. (New York Times)

Writer and critic Merve Emre [6] talks with NPR about personality tests, Carl Jung, and her new book, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing.

Publishers Weekly goes behind the scenes at the offices of Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press [7], which is “more like a confederation than a traditional publisher and its imprints.” The presses merged two years ago.

“If grief is heaviness, one’s hope is that it doesn’t just vanish, as if the dead could easily be forgotten.” Yiyun Li on grief and her new story in the New Yorker [8].

A bookstore in a small town in Germany has turned its business around by teaming up with a baker and butcher to sell fresh bread and sausage alongside books [9]. (New York Times)