“And I do like to joke—although I don’t think it’s a joke, I think it’s true—that my body of work has the highest number, per capita, of Grateful Dead references in American literature. I don’t know if that’s good or not, but I think it’s true.” -from Justin Taylor’s interview with Time Out New York‘s Tiffany Gilbert about his excellent new collection Flings, which is out today.

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