“I don’t think writing and writing again and changing and rewriting or revising are separate processes. It’s all writing. I don’t limit any of that.” At Conversational Reading, Scott Esposito chats with Lynne Tillman.

• At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ned Vizzini takes on Meghan Cox Gurdon’s critical WSJ essay concerning YA fiction.

• The excellent Collections of Colonies of Bees have a new album coming out in August. This is, I daresay, fine news.

• Greg Olear looks at fiction about fathers.