Jesse Ball made a playlist for his new novel Silence Once Begun.

Slaughterhouse 90210: The Book is coming, which is a fine piece of news.

Robert Christgau has thoughts on last year in music.

The Atlas Review has a new issue out, and The Washington Square Review talked with editor Natalie Eilbert about it.

Donald Antrim was interviewed in The New Yorker.

Dusted checked in with the long-running, Feelies-affiliated group Speed the Plough.

New fiction from Matthew Salesses at Guernica.

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