Recommended Reading has fiction from Diane Cook.

Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Claudia Rankine was interviewed at BOMB.

Sadie Stein wrote about literary (re)discovery and Fred Uhlman’s novella Reunion.

James McBride was interviewed at the Star Tribune.

The Strand has book recommendations from Lena Dunham.

Michele Filgate talked with Caitlin Moran.

Protomartyr’s Joe Casey discusses the new album from Interpol.

Caitlin Doughty was interviewed at Science of Us.

Tyler Wilcox looks into good–and less good–live recordings of The Replacements from the mid-1980s.

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