Rachel Syme compares The Great Gatsby to The Wolf of Wall Street at The New Yorker.

Dolan Morgan talks with George Saunders at The Atlas Review.

“I want so much to be someone who sees something and writes it down in their beautiful leather notebook. The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute.” – Lena Dunham talks to Salon.

Sarah Weinman lists her favorite crime novels of 2013.

The Goldfinch is reviewed at New York Review of Books. 

This 1930s atlas of America is pretty great stuff.

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