Drew Friedman wants to know who is “Dining at Melvyn’s.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald: songwriter.

New Joshua Cohen fiction up at Tablet.

And to get your Friday fiction covered: some flash fiction from Frances Uku at 3:AM Magazine.

“Ahh, Philip Roth. He sometimes feels as familiar to me as my own Freudian id, and in this sense I’ve felt ambivalently about him since my earliest days as a reader.” – Levi Asher on Philip Roth as a “virtual family member” at LitKicks.

The next Literary Death Match has Dexter, Jonathan Lethem, and Moby as judges. If only we were in Los Angeles to see it…

An interview with composer David Lang at Flavorwire.

Nick Waterhouse made a mix full of  “Old school baby making music.” 

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