Roxane Gay reviewed Jenny Offill’s excellent Dept. of Speculation for the Times.

Chris Abani talked with The Rumpus.

Aaron Gilbreath visited the site of Haruki Murakami’s old jazz club.

The time Jen Doll saw the Pixies in Nashville and vomited.

The trailer for The Double, Richard Ayoade’s new Dostoevsky adaptation, is up; also, creepy.

Revisiting Ivan Vladislavic’s The Loss Library at The Kenyon Review.

Here’s audio of Richard Powers reading from his new novel Orfeo.

The next issue of We’ll Never Have Paris is seeking submissions.

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