Miles Klee’s forthcoming novel Ivyland — with a description referencing sinister pharmaceutical companies, bleak comedy, and New Jersey — has our interest piqued. (It doesn’t hurt that lit-blogs we like are saying good things about it.) His story “If You Could” appeared on Storychord not long ago.

• The fine literary magazine Slake has a Kickstarter project up and running.

• At Bookforum, Johanna Fateman on Nile Rodgers’s memoir Le Freak.

• Cats Hate Reading: best literary tumblr, or best literary tumblr ever?

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