- “Purple Elegy” by Griffin Prize shortlisted poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips. (The Paris Review)
- Authors Naomi Jackson, Alexander Chee, and Kaitlyn Greenidge reflect on Prince’s legacy. (Literary Hub)
- Elena Ferrante and Ta-Nehisi Coates make Time‘s 100 Most Influential People list. (Time)
- Grapes, figs, nuts and small animals: what theatregoers ate during Shakespeare’s plays. (NPR)
- For $4.25 million, you can buy Judy Blume’s Key West home. (Page Six)
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