Julie Hart talked with Tommy Pico at PANK.

There’s a fantastic essay from Edan Lepucki at the Times.

Blake Butler has some suggestions for unsettling summer reading.

J. Hoberman on Snowpiercer. And Peter Frase has thoughts on the film at Jacobin.

There’s new writing from Eleni Sikelianos at BOMB.

Bookforum has footage of Karl Ove Knausgård at the New York Public Library.

New writing from Bruce Sterling at PEN.

The Paris Review has an interview with Daniel Mendelsohn.

Talking with J.E. Reich at fwriction.

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