“…I love to think that Melville exists for us thanks to the interest of Socialist Jews in the early part of the 20^th century. These Lefty Jews rediscovered Melville, for us, the way Charles Lamb rediscovered Marlowe for the Romantics.” This Adam Wilson/Lorin Stein conversation is fascinating,  tremendously entertaining, and involves a herring.

• Alan Sepinwall is spending the summer revisiting the first season of Deadwood.

• Jon Cotner, by comparison, will be leading a series of walks through New York City this summer.

• WORD has a roundup of Twitter reactions to last night’s China Miéville/Lev Grossman extravaganza.

• Time Out NY lists 25 icons of New York City’s jazz scene.

• CVLT Nation profiles artist Brian Montuori. (His band Psychic Limb is also very good, for what it’s worth.)