TODAY: In 1916, Beat poet Harold Norse (pictured here with William Burroughs) is born.
- 16 highbrow beach reads for your summer getaway—or day at the beach, or afternoon in the air conditioned café… | Lit Hub
- Peter Mayle, iconic Englishman of Provence, really knew how to handle the trolls (back when the trolls wrote letters). | Lit Hub
- Writing about other people, building a career, and making mistakes: collected wisdom from the “nonfiction mafia of women.” | Electric Literature
- Watch the dreamy trailer for the film adaptation of Justin Torres’s We the Animals. | /Film
- “It is a feminist act to preserve stuff that women have done and written.” On the growing role of women in the traditionally male-dominated rare book field. | The Paris Review
- Speaking of rare books: “‘While I breathe, I hope.’ This ‘cryptic message’ discovered in a copy of The Faerie Queene reveals it to be one of the books Charles I readduring his final imprisonment.” | The Guardian
- As you listen to Rita Moreno read Emma Lazarus’s famous poem, think on these words from Statue of Liberty protester Therese Patricia Okoumou: “In America, we do not put children in cages.” | Vulture, The Cut
- “Tyler is not a recluse, exactly—or, as one critic called her, the Greta Garbo of the literary world—but she’s a creature of rigorous habit, rooted in Baltimore, her home for the last 51 years and one she seldom leaves.” Inside the writing life of Anne Tyler. | The New York Times
- An annotated peek into the first issue of Captain America as written by Ta-Nehisi Coates. | The New York Times
- “Issues are polarizing and you fall into a camp, [but] poetry doesn’t allow that to happen. You’re being pushed towards new ways of hearing and seeing.” Tracy K. Smith on the “apolitical” role of US Poet Laureate. | Nylon
