Quintron’s Magic House in New Orleans.

• It would seem that the writer who wrote the Slate article “Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller,” and called indie bookstores being “cultish,” isn’t too popular.

• Send Electric Literature your short story of 30 to 300 words.

• Marcel the Shell makes it onto NBC.

• Jarvis Cocker talks a little bit of poetry.

• Letters from George Orwell.

• A new video for Marissa Nadler’s “In Your Lair, Bear.”

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