Afternoon Bites: Nina Simone, Aaron Burch Reading, Gritty American Fiction, Melissa Broder Reviewed, and More

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Claudia Roth Pierpont on Nina Simone, in The New Yorker.

Monica McClure on Melissa Broder’s Scarecrone.

Wendy C. Ortiz was interviewed at Entropy.

Jason Diamond recommends gritty American fiction.

Feel like hearing audio from Aaron Burch’s recent appearance at the Franklin Park Reading Series?

Here’s an interview with designer Jason Booher about his work on Mike McCormack’s collection Forensic Songs.

Brian Evenson interviewed Amina Cain at The Believer.

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