Benjamin Moser has a look at Elizabeth Bishop’s writings on Brazil at the Book Bench.

Zoe Heller reviewed Salman Rushdie’s Joseph Anton for theNew York Review of Books.

Miranda July talked to the folks at BOMB.

New at Rookie: Emma Straub’s essay “On Being a Late Bloomer.”

Matt LeMay looks back at Interpol, and a very specific moment in NYC music.

Kendra Grant Malone, who’s reading tonight at Franklin Park, was interviewed at The L Magazine.

More best of 2012 lists, this time from Book Riot.

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