Maybe spend 13-minutes listening to people talk about  Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle” to start your morning?

• Former Vice editor Jesse Pearson is teaming up with Sam McPheeters to Exploded View, which Capital New York says will “fall somewhere in the center of the lit-mag spectrum.”

• Our own Tobias Carroll talks to Kris D’Agostino for L Magazine.

• Lincoln Michel at The Paris Review on a chess hoax.

• Atticus Lish will be reading from his book, Life Is with People, at KGB Bar on April 7th.

• Alexander Hamilton’s sexual preference?

• Who keeps giving Jewel book deals?  Remember the last time this happened?

• Nite Jewel talks with Impose about studying philosophy (among other things).

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