Joshua Cohen talks about A Heaven of Others on Aspen public radio.

• Giancarlo DiTrapano of New York Tyrant & Tyrant Books talks to Fictionaut.

• Philip Roth hanging out at the Russian Samovar.  Our inside sources tell us he really likes blueberry vodka.

• Where writer folk like Edith Zimmerman and Rosie Schaap go to drink in New York.

• A Megan Boyle primer of sorts.