Claudia Rankine talked with The Guardian.

At the StarTribune, notes on Kate DiCamillo.

The Los Angeles Review of Books reviewed Corinne Mucha’s memoir Get Over It!

John Scalzi has some thoughts on the controversy over Amazon’s all-you-can-read program.

At The Rumpus: new writing from Sonya Huber.

Jon Lee Anderson is at work on a book about Fidel Castro.

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