TODAY: On this day, in 2012, Maurice Sendak died.
- Christie Watson on trans-racial adoption: “The day I met my daughter was much like the day I gave birth: filled with anxiety, and happiness, and love.” | Literary Hub
- Junot Díaz, libro-phile, wrote a letter advocating for the New York Public Library. | GalleyCat
- Haruki Murakami, advice columnist, on the end of the world, terrorists, and the boundaries of logic. | The Japan Times
- “I admire those who are stuck on the outside and have to grapple with that and are really unable to conquer that in themselves.” Daniel Clowes does not write heroes. | The Millions
- You are not alone, Etgar Keret; we all feel that Starbucks connects us “to something [we] already know and experience about life but in a different and weird way.” | The Atlas Review
- John Ashbery and Dorothea Lasky dropped new tracks (by which we mean poetry recordings) on PoetryNow. | Harriet
- Your husband doesn’t need to be present for this: a short story by Liliana Heker. | Granta
- On satire, revising, and realizing that “this motherfucker thinks his is the only way to see the world.” An interview with Paul Beatty. | The Paris Review
- “All this / life born from one hungry animal, this whole, / new landscape.” A poem by Camille T. Dungy. | The Kenyon Review
- The Beats culturally appropriated a lot, especially when it came to marijuana. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
- “We keep killing Christ, or someone Christ-like, over and over again. It’s a vision of our collective madness.” Charles Simic on his favorite literary passage. | The Atlantic
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