This is a lovely profile of Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach.

Maris Kreizman chronicles a life of internet-related embarrassment.

Megan Abbott reviews a biography of Robert “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” Ripley for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Now you can digitally subscribe to Poetry magazine!

The Paris Review Daily has a nice appreciation of the Small Faces up.

Over at Flavorwire, The Great Gatsby goes up against Open City in a battle for the prized title of Last Great New York Novel.

Important journalism: a look at Blaze magazine’s first issue.

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