Pitchfork reviewed the new Lee Hazlewood box set.

The books and judges for this year’s Tournament of Books have been announced.

Mellow Pages Library has begun a discussion of whether or not they should accept money from ExxonMobil.

Zora Neale Hurston has a Google Doodle.

This Sadie Stein essay on romance, doughnuts, and Greenpoint is highly recommended.

Dinaw Mengestu was interviewed at The Book Bench.

Impose has new music up from the blissed-out Minneapolis group Web of Sunsets.

Checking in with the editor of the 33 1/3 series of books as it reaches its tenth anniversary.

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