TODAY: In 1903, Georges Simenon, prolific Belgian author who published nearly 500 novels and best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret, is born.
- A designer’s lament: when you have to kill the perfect book cover. | Literary Hub
- Introducing New Poetry by Indigenous Women, a series curated by Natalie Diaz, with poems by Heid E. Erdrich, Kat Page, Kimberly Blaeser, and Laura Da’. | Literary Hub
- What HBO’s High Maintenance—a show about weed delivery—actually says about ethics in journalism. | Literary Hub
- From heavyweight essayists to The Hatred of Literature, 5 books making news this week. | Book Marks
- “Even though Judy Blume wasn’t standing at a giant feminist podium with a vagina on it, pumping her fist, she may have had one of the most profound feminist influences on my generation.” Amanda Palmer on her love song to Judy Blume. | Slate
- Despite a note reading “Pas de publication posthume” in his will, the fourth volume of Michel Foucault’s landmark History of Sexuality has been published in France, 34 years after his death. | The Guardian
- “Melodic and discordant all at the same time, women’s voices singing from the darkness, uncompromising; not soft, not strident, more like a chorus of ghosts. . .” Neil Gaiman on The Breeders. | The Breeders
- Ready your phones and letters: Trump is trying to eliminate the NEA again. | NEA
- On medieval mystics and Flannery O’Connor, “women trying to find a way around their own bodies, through their trauma, toward God.” | Catapult
- Have seen every costume drama available on Amazon Prime (twice)? Are a sci-fi/fantasy fan who is romance-curious? No matter who you are, Kelly Faircloth has a romance suggestion for you. | Jezebel
- The American Library Association has announced the recipients of this year’s Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King awards, among others; Jennifer Egan and Sherman Alexie have been awarded Andrew Carnegie Medals. | ALA
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