TODAY: In 1937, Bella Ahkmadulina, Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, is born.
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- 30 books to look forward to this summer, if it ever arrives. | Elle
- “Desire is sustained through fragments, concentrated moments spent together mythologized during those apart.” On the love letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares. | The Paris Review
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- Writing about the oldest oral library in Australia: on Bruce Chatwin and the Arrernte people. | Lit Hub
- Terese Marie Mailhot, Meredith Talusan, Ijeoma Oluo, Kathryn Belden, and Kima Jones discuss what it means to navigate the publishing industry as a woman of color. | BuzzFeed Reader
- “More than anything, there is this: the sublime moment—and it never stops being sublime—when you get to attend, as beautiful, meaningful, and original work emerges in the world.” Rebecca Saletan on the work of a book editor. | Poets & Writers
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