Rabih Alameddine was interviewed at Bookforum.

EV Grieve has a collection of remembrances of the late Maggie Estep. Neil Gaiman’s tribute to Estep is also worth reading.

Alan Sepinwall looks back at the life of Sid Caesar, who died yesterday at the age of 91.

Claire Vaye Watkins talked with The Believer.

At Deadspin: thoughts on David Peace’s pair of novels about soccer.

Looking for the best place to start listening to Mark Kozelek’s discography?

Revisiting Alain Resnais’s Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime.

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