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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily overview of literary titles at the intersection of politics, culture, media, etc.
It is a beautiful May in May here in Portland, Oregon and my ability to offer my normal mixture of incisive criticisms and carefree observations is seriously compromised. It’s time for a good seam, let’s eliminate the fall in the digital closet link!
Booking photos have reached the crisis point. What is a reader to do? (The bookseller)
A visit to the archives of Shel Silverstein (editor’s weekend)
Looking for “brief”: where is this maximalist cult of difficulty? (Le Berliner)
Rachel Kushner The 20th anniversary of less zero (The Paris Review)
The great flattened language (the Atlantic)
A new documentary checks the many ways whose libraries are a free “ for all ” (NPR)