Amanda Petrusich talked with Sharon Van Etten at Pitchfork.

Mel Brooks was interviewed about Blazing Saddles at HitFix.

Judy Berman on Nathaniel P. and literary communities.

Deb Olin Unferth, Matt Bell, Scott Cheshire, and more on the female writers who have inspired them.

Is Jane Campion going to direct an adaptation of The Flamethrowers?

Natasha Guzman on satire at The Brooklyn Quarterly.

The Center for Fiction has announced this year’s Emerging Writer Fellows.

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