Talking Tom Waits at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

“I’m not ever saying anything unusual, you know? I’m just trying to think about general things just a bit more specifically.” Zadie Smith is interviewed at The Rumpus.

Thom Dunn on Jonathan Hickman’s philosophical superheroes.

Jason Rice has good things to say about David Gilbert’s & Sons.

New diary comic from Gabrielle Bell.

Scott Snyder is interviewed about horror comics, retro photos, and Batman.

Cory Doctorow on Warren Ellis’s hallucinatory-sounding procedural Gun Machine.

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