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Happy birthday, Jared Daniel Fagen! Celebrate by reading this Fagen essay we published last year! For Mary Ann Caws…

Happy birthday, Arundhati Roy! 59, today! Here are some quotes from the author: “For reasons that I don’t…

Happy birthday, Guy Davenport! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Avoid the suave flow of prose that’s…

Happy birthday, Paul Celan! Here are some quotes from the author. “Poetry is a sort of homecoming.” …

Happy birthday, Lynn Crawford! Celebrate by reading this Crawford fiction we published last year! The Brain—is wider than…

Happy birthday, Roland Barthes! Here are some quotes from the author. “There is only one way left to…

Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Here are some quotes from the author. “What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.”…

Happy birthday, Kurt Vonnegut! Here are some quotes from the author. “So it goes.” “There is no…

Happy birthday, Tobias Carroll! Celebrate by reading this Carroll fiction we published last year! No surprise Trina had spent…

Happy birthday, Sylvia Plath! Here are some quotes from her writing: “The blood jet is poetry, / There…