“Last year I managed to tracked down a copy of each Philip K. Dick book, and I’m reading my way through them all in random order.” Stephin Merritt talked with The Airship.

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Shalom Auslander are working on a pilot for Showtime.

Warren Ellis has contributed a Book Notes playlist for his Dead Pig Collector.

The Nervous Breakdown has an ode to the Hartford Whalers.

Destruction Unit talked with Ad Hoc.

At Pitchfork, Jenn Pelly wrote about Dead Girlfriends.

David Mitchell meets Game of Thrones.

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