TODAY: In 1943, poet Louise Glück is born.
- Because every day is Earth Day: 365 books to start your climate change library (part one, The Classics) · Bill McKibben on our new climate reality · Mireille Juchau’s notes toward a new Golden Record of humanity · Andrew Ervin on Robert Macfarlane, Sami folktales, and what we risk losing in the Arctic · A professional beekeeper shares some tips for preventing the insect apocalypse. | Lit Hub
- Read Walt Whitman’s thoughts on sex (or: “sex, sex, sex: sex is the root of it all: sex”). | Lit Hub
- A book is a letter addressed to someone else: Isabella Hammad on six great books of correspondence. | Lit Hub
- The real story behind the creation of the atomic bomb: on the many narratives of J. Robert Oppenheimer. | Lit Hub
- This week in Shhh… Secrets of the Librarians: Jessamyn West on intellectual freedom, creepy basements, and the library as a safe space. | Book Marks
- Paul Abbott on Ed McBain and the first ten years of the legendary 87th Precinct series. | CrimeReads
- From Morgan Parker to Franny Choi: all the poetry you should be reading right now, according to writers. | O
- “What if a streamlined suitcase is the missing link, the unheralded key to writing sentences like skate blades?” Rachel Syme on the undeniable allure of writers’ daily routines. | Bookforum
- A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows how The Tale of Genji, the 11th-century masterpiece from Japan, has been one of the world’s most enduring literary hits. | The New Yorker
- “When we have 10 stories, there are maybe 10,000 stories that we will never know.” The power of translating stories of the Armenian diaspora. | Los Angeles Times
- Twitter, actual birds, and the necessity of context: an instructive excerpt from Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing. | The Paris Review
- Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom are launching a black feminist podcast, Hear to Slay, on “celebrity, culture, politics, art, life, love and more.” | The Grapevine
- You can read the Mueller report for free online right now—but it’s also already a bestseller. | NPR
Also on Lit Hub: Read a poem by Jean Valentine from the anthology Here: Poems for the Planet • A tribute to Beat writer Bobbie Louise Hawkins • Read from Will Eaves’ new novel, Murmur
