Richard Melo interviewed himself for The Nervous Breakdown.

Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum have assembled an oral history of Maxwell’s.

Alan Sepinwall’s tribute to the late Dennis Farina is worth reading.

Mike Meginnis has won Black Balloon Publishing’s Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize.

Lapham’s Quarterly takes us inside the world of space whales.

The Believer talked with the excellent Seattle artist Derek Erdman.

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