TODAY: In 1936, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s work in progress, Conversation at Midnight, is burned in a hotel fire on Sanibel Island, Florida. 

• Caroline Carlson recommends new children’s books by Matt Hunt, Julie Flett, Vera Brosgol, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “True intimacy means striving for complete knowing.” Khadijah Queen on intimacy, self-care, and the asexual spectrum. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Are you the literary asshole if you don’t want to talk to your coworker about their writing? Let Kristen Arnett tell you. | Lit Hub Craft
• “Kafka seems both genius and ingenue, and the contradiction brings him closer to us.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
• Read J.G. Ballard’s “The Garden of Time,” the story that inspired this year’s Met Gala theme. | Lit Hub Short Story
• “Rooms to protect people have existed throughout history and are created in response to danger and violence.” Angela Garcia on Mexico City’s illegal detox centers. | Lit Hub Politics
• New poetry from Catherine Barnett, Jeremy Michael Clark, Ann Jäderlund, and more, recommended by Rebecca Morgan Frank. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “My mother and father sat unspeaking at my kitchen table. My father’s hands trembled, and none of us mentioned it.” Read from Rachel Khong’s novel, Real Americans. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Callum Bains digs into the smorgasbord of cookbooks inspired by fiction. | Esquire
• Who’s stealing all those rare editions of Pushkin from libraries around Europe? Is it you? If so, quit it. | The New York Times
• “No two of us were exactly alike. To meet one autistic person was to have met one autistic person.” Steve Edwards explores how an autism diagnosis altered his relationship to his writing. | The Yale Review
• A conversation with Eileen Myles, through the lens of Chelsea Girls: “You know, I talk to people in my head all day long. There are a lot of people in there.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Considering the intersecting lives and works of Marjorie Perloff and Helen Vendler. | The Atlantic
• “And while Silicon Valley is turning a profit, the newspaper industry from which it is harvesting content is in dire straits.” On the continued battle between journalism and AI. | The New Republic