Simone de Beauvoir was born on this day in 1908.

Morgan Parker takes us through the process of revising a poem.

At The Dissolve: Nathan Rabin on the Hemingway-family-centric documentary Running From Crazy.

JS Breukelaar was interviewed at Entropy.

Feel like reading a newly-translated story from Enrique Vila-Matas?

The Guardian has an excerpt from Will Boast’s memoir.

Impose toured Seattle’s Hardly Art Records.

At Electric Literature: checking in with Farel Dalrymple, the writer/artist behind The Wrenchies.

Thomas Pierce has a playlist up at Largehearted Boy.

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