Guernica has an excerpt up from Eula Biss’s forthcoming On Immunity: An Inoculation.

At The New Inquiry, Teju Cole muses on fathers, sons, and war.

Hello, Sleater-Kinney box set.

Eleanor Catton has established a grant to give writers more time to read.

John Waters was interviewed at The Dissolve.

Pitchfork has footage up from Drive Like Jehu’s reunion show this past weekend.

Matt Bell has won this year’s Paula Anderson Book Award.

New poetry from Juliet Escoria at Ampersand Review.

Will Self vs. George Orwell; Warren Ellis chimes in.

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