Happy birthday, Margaret Atwood.

Bustle has a look at nonprofit writing centers across the USA.

Kid Millions shares his thoughts on George Clinton’s memoir.

Christopher Bollen remembers David Armstrong at Artforum.

When Maurice Sendak’s estate clashed with a library in Philadelphia.

Jillian Mapes on the end of the Ohio venue The Union.

The New York Post talked with Vanishing New York’s Jeremiah Moss.

Atul Gawande was interviewed at Guernica.

Pitchfork reviewed Dean Blunt’s album Black Metal.

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