To read - June 14th

...in no particular order, and with the promise of a Cliff Approved Movie Idea next time (which I have to say in advance because it broke Lauren a lot)

Sometimes it is not easy to get to everything and also Orlando and also the Tony's and mostly Orlando and words inside about violence and masculinity and horror and tragedy and fear and love and love and love. So, these are the evidence that the world continues, that there is beauty and life in it. This is how I frame tomorrow.

The 10 Most Poetic Cities in the World by Julian Yanover on My Poetic Side

ALA Responds to Orlando days before their conference is scheduled to open there.

Canterbury Tales rebooted with refugee stories of tracking and detention by Alison Flood at The Guardian Books

Harry Potter and the Return of the Midnight Parties by Judith Rosen at PW

Black Girls Can Be Princesses Too, That's Why I Wrote My Books by Mylo Freeman at The Guardian Books

Varney's in Manhattan, KS is closing after 126 years - which is unfathomable to me, especially as we live in a country where there are so few cultural institutions that have survived our tumultuousness that the loss of every one is greeted with heartache.

Toronto's Glad Day Bookshop is crowd-funding moving to a bigger location to provide more services and accessibility. Props to them for focusing on what safety and service means in a different age.

Also, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching by Mychal Denzel Smith came out. This one. Read This One. As Cliff says: "To simply call this book amazing would be to do it a disservice. It's so much more than that. This book serves as a tribute to all of the young, black, marginalized girls, boys, men and women who've unjustly lost their lives and futures at the hands of a system that refused to see them. With this book Mychal demands that you see them."

Ashley Ford is the best.

Jenny Zhang is the best.

Why Hollywood Doesn't Tell More Stories For - and About - Girls at The Atlantic by Anya Jaremko-Greenwold - be warned, do not read this if you are in a place where you cannot get angry safely. Like not at the tea room. Or probably at work. Or if you are feeling a lot of things right now about the dangers of boys being boys and the gross inequality in positions of influence in entertainment and all of the work that it takes to de-colonize one's imagination. Like, basically, be careful reading this if you are a person who is alive right now and feeling things at all. But please don't forget to read it.