Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.
It is a beautiful May day here in Portland, Oregon and my capacity to offer my normal blend of incisive critiques and insouciant observations is severely compromised. Time for a good old-fashion, let’s clear out the digital closet link drop!
Book cover clichés have reached crisis point. What’s a reader to do? [The Bookseller]
A Visit to Shel Silverstein’s Archives [Publisher’s Weekly]
In search of “Brodernism”: Where is this maximalist cult of difficulty? [The Berliner]
Rachel Kushner on the 20th Anniversary of Less Than Zero [The Paris Review]
The Great Language Flattening [The Atlantic]
A new documentary checks out the many ways libraries are a ‘Free For All’ [NPR]
