Lou Reed’s poem to his former teacher, Delmore Schwartz, at Poetry magazine.  (Read the entire issue here.)

Rebecca Joines Schinsky rounds up the best food writing at Book Riot.

Rich Cohen discusses Samuel Zemurray’s (the focus of his lates book, The Fish That Ate the Whale) code at The Wall Street Journal.

Melissa Broder talks to herself at The Nervous Breakdown.

The Bowery Boys talk BAM.

We talked to Total Slacker.

Tobias and Jason talked Atticus Lish.

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