TODAY: In 1900, Swedish poet and novelist Karin Boye, best known for the dystopian science fiction novel Kallocain (1940), is born.
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- “A bookstore is like a storehouse for our souls.” City Lights’ Elaine Katzenberger recalls the booms and busts of San Francisco, from the bookstore that has seen it all. | Lit Hub
- On a new A Phone Call from Paul, Paul Holdengraber speaks with Nathaniel Kahn about Larry Poons, protest art, and the commodification of the art world. | Lit Hub
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- New titles from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Daisy Johnson, Frederick Forsyth, and more in the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- In an excerpt from Glory Edim’s anthology Well-Read Black Girl, Kaitlyn Greenidge lists 10 books every black woman should read. | BuzzFeed
- “I’m really interested in redefining what a poet is, so why not try and break poetry’s rules as much as possible.” Read an interview with Eileen Myles. | The Creative Independent
- On the Strand’s union, and the state of indie bookstores (from the workers’ perspective). | Longreads
- “At first, I wondered if I was being too sensitive.” How men police women’s anger in writing workshops. | Bitch Media
- “Sunblock, chap-stick, the works of Proust, antidepressants, and flares.” When John Ashbery revealed his (very practical) desert island objects in a Q&A with high school students. | Best American Poetry
- On Sergio de la Pava, who is “among the last of a vanishing breed: a society-spanning novelist of ideas in an era dominated by inert lyrical realism or narratives about authorial selfhood.” | The Nation
- “All their deaths exist together. Whenever I see the hashtag I immediately see those faces.” Black artists on #BlackLivesMatter. | The Offing
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