Kathleen Alcott wrote about Charlie Smith’s Men in Miami Hotels for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Neko Case showed Rookie how to make borscht.

3:AM has new, Vertigo-inspired, writing from Gabriel Blackwell.

Tin House has new fiction from Adam Peterson for your reading pleasure.

Aziz Ansari is writing a book on modern romance.

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