TODAY: In 1989, Georges Simenon, pictured here with Inspector Maigret actor Jan Teulings, dies.
- America, nation of immigrants, has foundational literature by immigrants. | Literary Hub
- Renata Adler on acquiring a sense of danger, the mundanity of war, and the peril of railroad stations. | Longform
- A rare opportunity to “webchat” with the Queen of Twitter herself, Joyce Carol Oates. | The Guardian
- On the fiction of “our greatest living practitioner of decadent literature,” Edward St. Aubyn. | Flavorwire
- A grammar lesson on the passive voice, beloved by incompetent police departments across America. | McSweeney’s
- On the collected, untame poems of Frank Stafford. | Rain Taxi
- Self-care, self-disclosure, and self-knowledge: theorizing the writing of identity. | The New Inquiry
- Clancy Martin on the importance of intimacy, being human, and the division between love and the erotic. | Adult Magazine
- The figure of the vulture in literature and the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. | Harriet
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