Writer Laurie Penny and illustrator Molly Crabapple talked with Bitch about their collaboration Discordia, Christopher Hitchens, Djuna Barnes, and more.

Ann Patchett on the first year in the life of her bookstore Parnassus Books.

Jay Bulger on making a documentary about legendary drummer Ginger Baker.

Molly Ringwald is interviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Nick Hornby is adapting Cheryl Strayed’s Wild for the big screen.

And Brian K. Vaughan is adapting Stephen King’s Under the Dome for television.

Edward Champion looks into the Spreecast outage, and how it affected (among others) the I Am Alt Lit folks.

Smart critics talking with smart critics: Matt Zoller Seitz interviews Alan Sepinwall about the latter’s The Revolution Was Televised.

Chris Sims on Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.

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