John Jeremiah Sullivan on music and history with “The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie.”

“By writing about the “bad” man’s search for meaning, I was able to make that search matter in a more dramatic way…” Jami Attenberg interviewed Zachary Lazar for The Rumpus.

Bijan Stephen on the effects of having read The Secret History.

Jen Doll interviewed Leah Umansky about her chapbook of Mad Men-inspired poetry.

Stephen M. Deusner interviewed Holly George-Warren about her biography of Alex Chilton. (Which we reviewed last week.)

Talking cosmic horror at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Broken River Books’ J. David Osborne on POD, Amazon, and the timing of ordering books.

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