TODAY: In 1966, Evelyn Waugh died after attending an upsettingly modern Easter Sunday Mass.
- Both Cuba and America will attend the Seventh Summit of the Americas today; Chantel Acevedo shares scenes from a Cuban-American childhood. | Literary Hub
- On customer service, David Foster Wallace, and the irony of total satisfaction. | 3AM Magazine
- Amelia Gray describes a charming date night in a teaser for her forthcoming short story collection, Gunshot: “Flesh is siphoned into a bowl and poured without discrimination into a free-standing grandfather clock that is set on fire and rolled into the street.” | FSG Originals
- Leslie Jamison on the lasting allure of Chris Kraus’s confessional “secretions.” | The New Yorker
- “Every student—no matter what ZIP code they live in or challenges they face—should have easy access to books outside the classroom.” New York City is donating thousands of books to city shelters. | NY Daily News
- Some people truly only read Playboy for its brutally honest, unfiltered, and occasionally (quite) offensive interviews. | Hazlitt
- In the Beginning Was the Sea, a Colombian novel from 1983, is shortlisted for this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. | The Guardian
- An adventurous expedition to the unplumbed depths of the American Geographical Society Library. | Atlas Obscura
