Vivian Gornick on Mary McCarthy and her novel The Oasis.

At The Paris Review, Alexander Nazaryan wrote about Charles Newman’s lost novel.

Inside the occasionally strange world of Game of Thrones fanfiction.

Amy Klein’s band Leda is running an Indiegogo campaign to cover some of their recording costs. Zines and acoustic EPs are among the incentives.

Ben Ratliff on Swans’ Bonnaroo set.

Bad at Sports has an interview up with the folks behind Chicago’s Annex, ” a center for writing, bookmaking, and self publishing.”

Hey, it’s a trilogy of videos from Hunx & His Punx.

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