Eugene Ionesco was born on this day in 1909.

Worthwhile reading: a pair of tributes to Allan Kornblum, the late founder of Coffee House Press, from Graywolf’s Fiona Macrae and Coffee House publisher Chris Fischbach.

Pitchfork reviewed the compilation Native North America Vol.1.

Scott Cheshire was interviewed on Late Night Library.

Sarah Weinman on the real case that inspired Lolita.

Blake Butler wrote about John Dermot Woods’s The Baltimore Atrocities.

Sarah Gerard was interviewed as part of Black Hill Press’s The How & The Why series.

Wondering Sound checked in with the former members of the great DC-based trio Chisel.

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