Scott Cheshire’s excellent High As the Horses’ Bridles is out today. He contributed an essay to The Begats, and talked with Electric Literature. We’ll have an interview with him in the coming days.

Better has new poetry from Natalie Eilbert.

Recommended reading from Kyle Minor.

Ted Thompson discussed his debut novel with Salon, and conversed with Maggie Shipstead for the Barnes & Noble Review.

John Scalzi on the Amazon/Hachette debate.

New writing from Mairead Case at Bookslut.

The plan to revitalize a Brutalist classic.

The Airship on the pointless destruction of priceless manuscripts.

Elisabeth Donnelly on Jane Bowles’s Two Serious Ladies.

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