TODAY: In 1799, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin is born.
- New Lit Hub Longform: Erri De Luca reports from onboard a migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean. | Literary Hub
- The biggest mystery of my book is its cover: Rachel Kadish tries to track down the meaning of a lost fragment. | Literary Hub
- Bella Pollen thought everything would be perfect if she moved to the western wilderness. | Literary Hub
- On the anniversary of D-Day, looking back at Stephen E. Ambrose’s 1994 account of the battle. | Book Marks
- “If we seem doomed despite the evidence, why continue to support us?” A roundtable discussion of the challenges facing university presses. | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- After a long hiatus, Jill Eisenstadt is set to release her first novel in 26 years. | Associated Press
- “Lobo felt envy, the bad kind first and the good kind after, because suddenly he saw that this was the most important day of his life.” An excerpt from Yuri Herrera’s novel Kingdom Con, translated by Lisa Dillman. | Guernica
- Take a look, inside . . . the making of beloved children’s program Reading Rainbow. | Mental Floss
- Bookselling in the 21st Century: on making the tough decision to get rid of a book. | Literary Hub
- “Obsession is just taking human want to its furthest point.” An interview with Stephen Florida author Gabe Habash. | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
- Every ending is a kind of apocalypse: on belief and The Leftovers. | Literary Hub
- Anything is true if enough people believe it: Harold Evans on the inability of new language to combat political lying. | The Daily Beast
- Brandon Taylor on Garrard Conley, Nick White, and finding one’s real self. | Literary Hub
- A failure of imagination when it comes to the fate of the world: on the dearth of literary fiction devoted to climate change. | The Baffler
- The secret influence of Mark Twain on George Herriman’s Krazy Kat comics. | Literary Hub
And on Literary Hub: At 50 years old, García Márquez’s masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude is as important as ever. • Five books making news this week: Diaries and “DeLillo for millennials” • From Nick Bredie’s Not Constantinople
