Dan LeRoy looks at the history of Paul’s Boutique.

Vladimir Sorokin has an essay on Russia and Ukraine in the New York Review of Books.

There’s a feature on Wendy C. Ortiz’s memoir Excavation in the Los Angeles Times.

The anthology Twelve Tomorrows features work from William Gibson, Lauren Beukes, Warren Ellis, and more.

Essayist Samantha Irby talked with Sari Botton and Anna Goldfarb.

Smart thoughts on Amazon and Hachette from Walter Jon Williams.

Cory Arcangel’s new project: a book collecting writers’ posts about working on their novels.

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