TODAY: In 1968, Helen Keller dies at 87.
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"In themselves they are disproportional, flat, fragile, caricatured, grotesque, carnivalesque." On Franz Kafka's nearly lost drawings. | Lit Hub Art
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Bill McKibben reckons with the myths (and ugly truths) of the American Revolution. | Lit Hub History
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11 novels that create their own shape. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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"I see too much of American poetics as largely a managerial endeavor." A dialogue between Rodrigo Toscano and Sandra Simonds. | Lit Hub Poetry
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Where did the myth of rapid immigrant mobility come from? | Lit Hub
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Why Lily Chu makes a to-do list for every day—with "write" at the top. | Lit Hub
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Sam Knight talks to Sarah Krasnostein about researching unreal phenomena and surrendering to the lure of the archive. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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These nine upcoming sci-fi and fantasy releases are guaranteed to jazz up your June. | Book Marks
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"How did the work of one of the most prominent leftist writers of the 20th century come to be so misunderstood?" Charlie Lee reads the work of Halldór Laxness. | The Baffler
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Ada Calhoun explores the tension between domesticity and creativity. | Vogue
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"A man with a dozen houses confronts death, the coronavirus pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and broad cultural changes that he cannot fully understand. 'Ha ha!' he says." Dan Brooks on David Sedaris' latest collection. | Gawker
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Ross Gay on defenstration and playing basketball. | Bookforum
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Laura Spinney discusses the undiscovered literature of the past. | The Guardian
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"I hope this text can serve as a model for how we can investigate, call in instead of call out, and write with a sense of curiosity and compassion." Steven Reigns talks about writing about HIV, homophobia, and history. | LARB
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