Largehearted Boy talks to Leigh Stein about the music listened to in the time she moved from Illinois to Albuquerque to write The Fallback Plan.

• Adam Mars-Jones at The Guardian on Roberto Bolaño’s The Third Reich.

• A Jewish-American writer feels isolated because of her views on Israel.

• There was Pauline Kael, and there was the other film reviewer at The New Yorker.

• At A.V. Club: Geeking out over SST Records.

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