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This one goes out to our beloved bodega cats. https://t.co/eiYP9H451J

Light and time it has sifted, like a metal welkin Of punctual stars, The cold hieroglyphs of the constellations, The raised scars On one side of the thin disk, stigmata Nubby as braille. ‘The Sieve’, a poem by @ae_stallings, in the latest issue: https://t.co/GeXtDB9ZCd

It's a hot one but a great one out here at the @GburgBookFest! Stop by our table and say hi! #GBF

Edna St Vincent Millay's life can't be neatly slotted into narratives of feminist triumphalism or victimisation, Ange Mlinko writes. She embarked on a brilliant career, but the Cinderella story turned into an addiction parable. https://t.co/bHP6VYnx5F

A full moon sacrifice, a floating city, a boarding school disappearance, and more in the best book deals of the day: https://t.co/3a7rG5cKrj

Authors you don't have to read, because you've already heard all about them from some guy at a bar. https://t.co/vGBnujbsYP

We'll be at the FREE, in-person @GburgBookFest all day today at Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg, MD! Stop by our table to say hello and talk books! (And be sure to bring us a Popsicle...) #GBF https://t.co/QcLtY25Aqh

“Just remember that not everyone had the advantages you’ve had. Some people have never even eaten at Culver’s.” (via @mcsweeneys) https://t.co/lOgXWFrkTf

In his new single ‘The Heart Part 5’, Kendrick Lamar adopts the faces of famous but troubled Black men, writes @nielaorr. But one influence is woven into the music itself: Marvin Gaye, who, like Lamar, presses at the complexities of Black masculinity. https://t.co/dOADw2Y0Sl https://t.co/5gGu4NPdmG

Gain a deeper understanding of the social, political, and aesthetic effects of the many points of view available to you in your writing in our partner @catapultstory's online seminar with @sklimnagem. Class starts soon—sign up now! https://t.co/RAfsMg5cFr

Before its statues were carried off to Rome and Constantinople, before it was levelled by earthquakes and disappeared in mud, no city was so richly imbued with the spirit of Hellenism than Olympia. @JamesRomm in the new issue: https://t.co/qbJxLG0dgG

‘Whichever scenario we favour – artistic network, innate Surrealism or cannibalistic culture – “the condition of dépaysement (being unlanded)”, the curators argue, was central to Surrealism.’ Hal Foster at @Tate Modern: https://t.co/a8oEIlmcv2 https://t.co/f6zqKTSVSu

Our Week in Reviews (featuring titles from @torbooks @eccobooks @HenryHolt @Harvard_Press and @BlackstoneAudio): https://t.co/mWzcSAUThP https://t.co/i2M6JKjfbo

If the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded in 1605, and James VI and I’s daughter had been crowned Queen Elizabeth II, what kind of monarch would she have been? Winter queen or queen of hearts? Clare Jackson on Elizabeth Stuart. https://t.co/wvzX071Cl2

Read across Kenya with these books by Kenyan writers: https://t.co/X1wpl0fmcN