Mac McCaughan covered Stiv Bators’s “It’s Cold Outside” for WPRB.

featherproof’s Zach Dodson selected four stories for the Chicago Reader‘s fiction issue.

“The similarities to American Psycho are obvious, if you replace a hyper-privileged insider eviscerating everything atop the social pyramid with congenial Nick Bray.” Sabra Embury on Eric Raymond’s Confessions From a Dark Wood.

Flavorwire has a look inside the new Silent Barn.

Bill Buford was interviewed by the Men in Blazers podcast about the legacy of his 1991 book Among the Thugs.

Melissa Chadburn’s essay “Drop Me Off the Cliff” is highly recommended.

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