Amiri Baraka, activist and former N.J. Poet Laureate, dead at 79.
Mellow Pages Library turned down a big grant from a shitty corporation.
Gary Shteyngart talks with Flavorwire.
Olivia Laing talks to The Awl about dead drunk writers.
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