We’re really glad somebody decided to do something about that crappy old cover of The Great Gatsby. (We’re kidding, the above movie tie-in cover is absolute garbage.)

Want to cheat at Scrabble against Peter Dinklage and John Hodgman?

Karen Russell and Claire Vaye Watkins talk at Salon.

The Paris Review celebrates sixty years with a great new issue.

A 1934 radio interview with Gertrude Stein.

Keith Gessen talks with the Longform podcast.

Thomas Cary shows off The Cary Project to The Dandy Portraits.

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