Aretha Sills remembers Townes Van Zandt at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

• Dana Spiotta is the featured guest on this week’s Other People podcast.

• Massachusetts reclaims Edith Wharton from Manhattan high society.

• Parul Sehgal reviews Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones for The New York Times.

• The Atlantic takes a look at 100 years of sportswriting.

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