TODAY: In 1816, Jane Austen responds to a letter from the Prince Regent suggesting she write a historic romance, saying, “I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.” Seven new poetry books to read this National Poetry Month from Alex Averbuch, Joshua Bennett, Milo De Angelis, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists How addiction became a central motif in crime fiction : “Are they evil or are they sick? While novelists writing in the years of the War on Drugs were asking this question about serial killers, the general public was asking the same question about drug addicts.” | Lit Hub Criticism “This argument about the frontier was new, and it was controversial.” Why Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis initially flopped. | Lit Hub History Hilda Vasquez Ignatin traces the history of the Young Lords of Chicago, the revolutionary Latino organizers of the ‘60s and ‘70s. | Lit Hub Politics Caroline Carlson recommends 10 great children’s books out in April.…