At The Dissolve, Nathan Rabin looks at Clifford Odets’s work for Hollywood.

Geraldine Visco on Richard Hell and the Punk Turns Forty conference.

Talking Girls and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Douglas Wolk on the recently-reissued Dylan’s Gospel.

Tom Hawking on Afrofuturism at Flavorwire.

The Center for Fiction has video up of Adam Wilson’s conversation with Peter Mountford.

Lincoln Michel interviewed Short editor Alan Ziegler for The Believer.

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