Aja Gabel on Marguerite Duras.

The Atlantic has excerpts from their book club’s Q & A with Rebecca Mead.

Musings on a library full of variations on Moby-Dick.

Edward St. Aubyn was the subject of a profile in The New Yorker.

The Nervous Breakdown has one of Leah Umansky’s Mad Men-inspired poems up for your reading enjoyment.

The Los Angeles Review of Books reviewed Adrianne Harun’s A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain.

Jayson Greene on In Conflict, the new album from Owen Pallett.

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