TODAY: In 1694, François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, is born.
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- We no longer knew our own country: Dave Eggers on driving through Trump’s America. | The Guardian
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- “The Ship of State, festooned with Trump/Pence election signs, is sinking. Shouldn’t we all fall silent in awe?” Charles Simic reflects on the election. | NYRB
- Each era gets the erotica it deserves: On Anaïs Nin and contemporary erotic writing. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Their full-time job is sadness: Three short stories by Sherman Alexie. | The Rumpus
- “Can we finally be bold and listen to the artists and the outsiders and the radicals and the freaks and the avant-garde and the base and the youth and the anarchists and all those who don’t want to do business as usual with the limousine liberalism of both the elite Democrats and Republicans?” Viet Thanh Nguyen imagines a better story for America. | The LA Times
- “The work of queer American writers has taken on a renewed importance and urgency now—an urgency that existed in the days before LGBT writers had legal protection
s.” On being a queer writer under Trump. | The Atlantic
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