TODAY: In 1857, Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is published. 
  • Haruki Murakami  on the exact moment he knew he’d be a novelist and the birth of his kitchen table fiction. | Literary Hub
  • Josh Cook on the highs and lows of being both a bookseller and a writer, including “the psychotic mix of euphoria and anxiety when someone picks up a copy of my book and walks around the store with it.” | Literary Hub
  • On Scott Sherman’s impassioned defense and shocking look into the dysfunction of the New York Public Library. | NPR
  • “If he could not ruin his own life, God had designed him in chains.” A short story by Rachel Kushner. | Electric Literature
  • In which Cate Marvin vapes, compares marsupial pouches and published books, and reflects on the harshness of high school. | The Rumpus
  • “Olga represents all my fears for my future and all the pain and suffering I’ve already endured.” Paula Bomer on reading Days of Abandonment after her father’s suicide. | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
  • On the “landscapes of meaning and meaningful landscapes” in Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry. | Tin House
  • With The Turner House, Angela Flournoy has written one of the “very finest books about one of America’s most dynamic, tortured, and resilient cities.” | The Millions
  • “In Rio de Janeiro the average distance between humans is shorter.” Writing by Gonçalo M. Tavares. | Granta
  • ROACH EGGS ROACH EGGS ROACH EGGS: an intimate reading of Basquiat’s poetry. | Hyperallergic

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