Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein discuss the greatness of This is Spinal Tap.

Flavorwire has Ellen Willis’s essay “The Last Unmarried Person in America” up now.

In the “excellent writers in conversation” department, Hobart has a conversation between Elizabeth Ellen and Juliet Escoria.

Patton Oswalt talked music with Pitchfork.

Elena Poniatowska has won the Cervantes Prize.

There’s a Melissa Broder interview up now at Entropy.

Lauren Elkin talks Charles Marville and Paris at the London Review of Books.

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