At The New Yorker, Dan Chiasson wrote about Claudia Rankine’s Citizen.

There is a fundraiser up now for a documentary about Joan Didion.

At Wondering Sound: notes on discovering Pavement in 2014.

Anne Helen Petersen on “basic” and class anxiety.

Ned Raggett responds to the Times‘s piece on streaming music.

Atticus Lish’s Preparation For the Next Life was reviewed at The Nation.

Seattle’s Rocky Votolato recommends his top five LPs.

Talking indie publishing in Minneapolis with folks from Coffee House Press and Milkweed Editions.

The NYPL recommends the best scary children in horror fiction.

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