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TODAY: In 1954, poet and novelist Louise Eldrich is born.
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- Why we write about the thrilling, nebulous future: Naomi Alderman on The Heads of Cerberus and the invention of progress. | Lit Hub
- “Girls playing the sport transgressed not only gendered norms but national expectations.” Why women’s soccer—despite its popularity—still struggles for institutional support. | Lit Hub
- Richard Kreitner wanders through the literary history of the borough of Brooklyn. | Lit Hub
- From doomed children at camp to mysterious Russian memoirs, five books you may have missed in May. | Lit Hub
- Jack London’s journey from rags to riches (and back again): Joy Lanzendorfer on the author’s first and last lives. | Lit Hub
- New titles from James Ellroy, Elizabeth Gilbert, Robert Macfarlane, and Ocean Vuong all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- Neil Nyren guides us through the life and work of Tony Hillerman, whose Navajo Tribal Police series and lifelong commitment to research brought the complex landscape of the southwest to life. | CrimeReads
- “Tin House was where the party was at—these were the conversations you wanted to join, the brilliant weirdos with whom you wanted to share a dance floor.” Nicole Rudick remembers the great literary journal, which publishes its final issue this month. | The New York Times
- “Books—and readers who want to experience bookshops, rather than buy from Amazon—are not dead.” Meet some of the booksellers growing and thriving in an increasingly digital marketplace. | The Guardian
- Good news, Emily Dickinson stans: Amherst’s Emily Dickinson Museum has received a $22 million gift, which will be used for historic preservation as well as “the continued expansion of key programs about Emily Dickinson’s life and significance.” | Poetry Foundation
- “I can get a different kind of political utility with my ecstatic body than I can by writing my body at the moment of violence.” Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and T Fleishmann in conversation. | BOMB
- “What’s considered high art? What’s lowbrow? That’s something that, as a person who like, lives at 7-Eleven, I’m extremely interested in.” Kristen Arnett on fiction, art, and Florida. | Longreads
- “I started to see my work, my intellect, my skills, my moments of humor or goodness, not as valuable in themselves, but as ways of easing the impact of my ugliness.” Chloé Cooper Jones on disability, beauty, and sex. | The Believer
- (Upside-down smile emoji; shrug emoji): Barnes & Noble may be acquired by hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. | WSJ
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