File under “things we never thought we’d type in 2012”: here’s some new music from Texas is the Reason.

Paula Bomer, who’s reading at Franklin Park next Monday, was interviewed at The Nervous Breakdown.

Molly Ringwald and Panio Gianopoulos went shopping for books at McNally Jackson.

Rosie Schaap talked with The Drinking Diaries.

BoingBoing has selected their favorite comics of 2012.

Emily Witt on Charles Dickens’s children.

Here’s a song with lyrics by Norman Lock, who has a new collection due out on Bellevue Literary Press next year.

Managing editor Tobias Carroll looked at J. Robert Lennon’s novel Familiar.

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