Lydia Millet shares her favorite YA series.

Christopher Higgs’s holiday gift guide at HTML Giant is pretty terrific.

Lauren Cerand on James Salter’s Three.

If you like smart pop music, Chickfactor has some top ten lists for you.

Our own Jen Vafidis talks Jane Jacobs at Guernica.

James Wood had some nice things to say about Joshua Cohen’s Four New Messages.

The folks behind Rust Belt Chic talked to WKSU. (We’ll be hosting them at Public Assembly on January 3rd.)

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