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:

Inspired by Susan Orlean’s new book, The Library Book, twelve writers—including Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Proulx, Amy Tan, and Julia Alvarez—share their favorite libraries [2]. (New York Times)

Orlean and Kingsolver are both featured in the most recent issue of Poets & Writers [3] and Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast [4].

“I just feel like everything in the world encourages me to lie...and so when I’m writing, I just want to try as hard as possible not to.” Kiese Laymon talks with Bim Adewunmi [5] about writing his new memoir, Heavy. (BuzzFeed News)

Online betting company Ladbrokes predicts that Daisy Johnson will take home the 2018 Booker Prize [6], which will be announced tonight in London. (Guardian)

Meanwhile, Booker Prize finalist Esi Edugyan talks with NPR [7] about Black genius, the enduring effects of slavery, and her recent book, Washington Black.

In other award news: Jenny Allen, John Hodgman, and Patricia Lockwood have been named as the finalists for the 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor [8].

José Olivarez, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Julissa Arce share their experiences writing and living undocumented in America [9]. (New York Times)

Guernica interviews critic and writer Merve Emre [10] about rethinking personality, holding writers to a high standard, and writing bad reviews. (Read Emre’s latest bad review [11] at the Atlantic.)

Open Culture shares a recording of Haruki Murakami’s hour-long stint as a DJ [12] for a Japanese radio station.