Roxane Gay interviewed Monica Drake at The Rumpus.

Gigantic has a Halloween issue up now, guest-edited by Adrian Van Young.

“This type of story has been told countless times; the film is more interested in what it means.” Scott Tobias on the Cormac McCarthy-penned film The Counselor.

The Coney Island Library has re-opened.

Blake Butler wrote about Amina Cain’s novel Creature this week at Vice.

Matt Zoller Seitz shares what he learned in writing The Wes Anderson Collection.

Jeff Sharlet on Sherri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial.

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