Applications are now open for the Kathy Acker Fellowship.

“Alby’s narratives are hectic and associative, jumping around in time and calling back to each other, but free of the burden to cohere into anything novel-shaped.” Justin Taylor reviewed Matt Summell’s Making Nice.

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s remembrance of David Carr is deeply moving.

Talking Kelly Link and Get in Trouble at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Alexis Coe has a new essay up at The Guardian.

Roxane Gay wrote about bad mentors for Fortune.

Johanna Hamilton talked with Anya Jaremko-Greenwold for BOMB.

Here’s the trailer for a new adaptation of Far From the Madding Crowd.

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