There is a documentary due out later this year about Nina Simone.

Elisabeth Donnelly talked with Jill Leovy at Flavorwire.

Sarah Gerard talked with the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Royal Young wrote about a beyond-deluxe edition of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard.

At Hobart, Joseph Riippi interviewed Laird Hunt.

Pacifica has an excerpt up from Richard Chiem’s novel King of Joy.

Buzzfeed has a look at how e-reading analysis might (or might not) change publishing.

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