“With several narrative threads, you can keep the reader off-balance, which is a sensation I crave as a reader. I really like the effect of storylines jutting up against each other in unexpected ways—the Pontius Pilate story against the fantastic, modern-day Moscow stuff in The Master and Margarita, for example.” At The Rumpus, Lincoln Michel talked with Eric Lundgren.

Laurie Anderson’s obituary for Lou Reed is one of the most moving things you’re likely to read this week/month/year.

Revisiting Rosemary’s Baby at Impose.

Sergio de la Pava’s Personae was reviewed at Bookforum.

Hyperallergic took a trip to BRIC House.

Pitchfork interviewed the terrific noise-punk band Perfect Pussy.

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