No women nominees in any major categories at the National Magazine Awards? That’s pretty fucked up.

• Ryan Gosling is doing more for lady journalists than the National Magazine Awards are.

• Ruth Franklin on why the literary landscape continues to disadvantage over women.

• Book Riot takes a look at the libraries of rich people.

• Poetry Out Loud is coming to Issue Project Room.  In case you’re curious what Poetry Out Loud is, we wrote about it a few months back.

• Courtney Maum writes a very personal and very great essay at The Rumpus.

• “I like strong characters… strong, opinionated people. I like writing opinionated male characters, too. It’s happenstance, but I do like writing women characters.” – Andi Teran interviews Whit Stillman.

• Will Oldham and David Byrne are totally Pieces of Shit.

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