TODAY: In 1892, Uruguayan poet Juana de Ibarbourou is born.
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- New titles from Helen Oyeyemi, Nickolas Butler, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Alex Kotlowitz all feature among the Best Reviewed Book of the Week. | Book Marks
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- Angela Flournoy, John Wray, Hanif Abdurraqib, Alexandra Kleeman, Lydia Kiesling and other writers on the music that matters right now. | The New York Times Magazine
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- Watch the first trailer for Wild Nights with Emily, in which Molly Shannon “liberates Emily Dickinson’s image”—and her longtime love affair with her brother’s wife, Susan. | EW
- “He was looking for the pure poetry after all the things that usually tell us we are reading poetry are gone.” Matthew Zapruder on James Tate‘s “last, last poems.” | The Paris Review
- A rockstar launch: To mark the fall release of The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, the National Theatre’s interview with the author will be broadcast worldwide. | The Guardian
- Dikda, a massive literary digitization project run by the Slovak National Library, has preserved more than 56 million pages of Slovakian literature. | Euronews
- Lambda Literary has announced the finalists for its Lammy awards. | Lambda Literary
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