Leslie Jamison’s essay collection The Empathy Exams is fantastic; Elisabeth Donnelly interviewed her for Flavorwire, and Jamison wrote an essay on writing personal essays for Publishers Weekly.

The time a group of riot grrrls prank called GG Allin.

The New York Public Library has made a whole lot of maps available.

Blake Bailey was interviewed at Hazlitt about his new memoir.

The New York Times on the return of the storied travel magazine Holiday.

Matt Sailor on cinematic drinking and Lost in Translation.

Notes on the debut of the journal No Tokens.

Benjamin Percy is the judge for a new hint fiction contest.

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