Sheila Heti and Tao Lin on reading Kafka in the bathroom.

Nick Antosca discusses his new collection The Girlfriend Game, writing for television, and more at The Rumpus.

Hazlitt has, perhaps, the only essay you’ll ever read that compares Leonard Cohen and Tommy Wiseau.

Metazen editor Frank Hinton’s second novel will be released in 2015 by Civil Coping Mechanisms. (We interviewed Hinton about her first novel last year.)

More details, including a leading actor, have been revealed for the upcoming miniseries based on Wolf Hall.

On reading (or not reading) Louise Glück.

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