Grace Paley was born on this day in 1922.

Discussing memoirs with Sheila Heti and Jian Ghomeshi at Hazlitt.

Talking J.F. Powers at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Rosie Schaap on spending Christmas at bars.

There’s a fantastic essay by Jenn Northington up at Food Riot now.

Eugene Lim made a playlist for his novel The Strangers. (We interviewed Lim earlier this year.)

The concept of “a crime story set in an entire city built to operate on pro wrestling logic” has our interest piqued.

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