If you’d like to read an excerpt of Colson Whitehead’s The Noble Hustle, NPR has you covered.

On Stefan Zweig and exile at the New York Review of Books.

Wondering Sound has an oral history of Chickfactor.

Jason Diamond on Michigan hardcore and Sean Madigan Hoen’s memoir.

Adam Wilson is interviewed by a pair of cats.

Jennifer Kelly on Teeth Dreams, the latest from The Hold Steady.

Mike Powell takes us through the Pixies’ discography at Pitchfork.

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