We would read a Frank Ocean novel.

On Richard Hell and his forthcoming memoir.

Robert Fay on unknowingly shadowing David Foster Wallace.

So the United States premiere of the Quay Brothers’ new film, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, is coming up.

Open Culture profiles Writers’ Houses.

Jane Austen’s five feminist footnotes.

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