“I came of age when not only Kubrick and Arthur Penn meant more to me than Bellow and Updike (though not necessarily Pynchon and Dick), but Dylan and Ray Charles and the Doors and the Beatles meant more than any of them. ” Lit Reactor interviews Steve Erickson, whose new novel These Dreams of You is out now.

• Three Guys One Book brings news of Mikhail Bulgakov’s collection Diaboliad & Other Stories: “[T]he perfect remedy for anyone, like myself, who sometimes suffers from the very stale beer of American realism.”

• Full Stop interviews William Gibson.

• Fictionaut chats with Pam Houston about mentoring.

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