The Christian Science Monitor wants you to stop calling today Presidents Day.

• To Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, and all other “Big Swinging Dick writers.”  Love, The Huffington Post.

• Rozalia Jovanovic spends an evening with Adam Wilson, Ben Marcus, and Bookforum at the New Museum.

• Speaking of Adam Wilson: An interview with Brad Listi at the Other People podcast.

• Roxane Gay is reviewed at The Rumpus.

• “They were two lines from a poem by William Butler Yeats: “Those that I fight I do not hate/Those that I guard I do not love.” – Anthony Shadid’s forthcoming memoir, Heart of Stone, is excerpted at The New York Times.

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