TODAY: In 1695, Mexican poet, philosopher, and composer Juana Inés de la Cruz dies.
- All the novels I almost wrote: brand new Pulitzer Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer looks back at what might have been… and sighs with relief. | Lit Hub
- “Intuition is everything.” And other bits of writing advice from Gabriel Garcia Marquez. | Lit Hub
- Sofija Stefanovic goes undercover at the Miss Ex-Yugoslavia Pageant in Melbourne. | Lit Hub
- Form vs. content, the eternal conversation: John Keene on the elements of literary style. | Lit Hub
- From Shakespeare to Stephen King, Sara Shepard recommends 8 thrillers that feature narratives inside narratives. | CrimeReads
- Susan Orlean’s next book, forthcoming this October, will investigate the case of the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, which damaged or destroyed more than a million books. | Entertainment Weekly
- “Writing, though performed alone, is also the only absolutely declarative, meaning-beset art form we have.” Patricia Hampl on solitude and writing. | The Paris Review
- From Unnamed Press to Lil’ Libros, how small independent presses are turning LA into a book town. | LA Magazine
- Today in important hippo content: how did African hippopotamuses end up in Colombia? | Lit Hub
- Alexander Chee on rereading Kazuo Ishiguro and James Baldwin. | Lit Hub
- “Contrary to liberal optimism, war, not peace, drove the development of modern capitalism.” A new work of history analyzes the role of guns in the making of the Industrial Revolution. | The New Republic
- Looking to further alienate yourself from your friends and neighbors? Now you can use Google to have conversations with books. | Lifehacker
- Since January, every top New York Times bestseller has been about Donald Trump—a trend that’s sure to continue with the release of James Comey’s A Higher Loyalty. | CNN
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