“Feeling weird or alienated from what you’ve written some years before—that’s many writers, right? It’s akin to suddenly seeing your 10th grade class photo. Jarring. Ew. You become a different writer as you become a different person through time.” –At Elliott Bay’s blog, Stacey Levine is interviewed about fictions long and short, and the process of revisiting them.

• Chicago’s Ben Tanzer wades into the marshes of Short Story Month with thoughts on work by Jim Ruland and Caleb J. Ross.

• A new Christian Fennesz EP is forthcoming? That is fine news.

• At This Recording, Elisabeth Donnelly revisits My So-Called Life.

• Three new titles in the 33 1/3 series have made their way into the world.