At The Stranger, seven writers have written responses to Charles D’Ambrosio’s stunning essay collection Loitering.

This year’s Lannan Literary Awards have been announced.

There’s a petition up for the MTA to give Posman Books in Grand Central a new lease.

Alexis Coe on the process of writing her book Alice + Freda Forever.

At the Portland Mercury, thoughts on Litsa Dremousis’s Altitude Sickness.

Discussing creative appropriation, at MoMA.

Rick Perlstein shares his thoughts on the Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself.

Notes on James Lee Byers’s 1/2 an Autobiography at MOMA PS1.

Scaachi Koul on Halloween and gullibility.

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