Louise Erdrich’s The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction, Katherine Boo took away the award for non-fiction, and the rest of the awards can be read about at The Millions.

Mira Ptacin talked to Katherine Boo for the N.B.A. site.

Ezra Glinter on Madame Blavatsky, otherwise known as “The Mother of Modern Spirituality,” at The Paris Review.

Fiona Maazel reviews George Saunders for Electric Literature.

Burn Philip Roth’s papers!!!

Hyperallergic had some good finds at last week’s Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.

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