Virginia Woolf tells you how to create memorable characters.

Brian Evenson has written a book about Chester Brown’s Ed the Happy Clown, and The Comics Journal has an excerpt.

Benjamin Kunkel talks Marxism with New York.

Lincoln Michel has assembled a list of books to check out if you like House of Cards.

Jason Diamond on the wit of Max Beerbohm.

New writing from Kristopher Jansma at The Rumpus.

The Dissolve interviewed Errol Morris.

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