The shortlist for this year’s PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize has been announced (including Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.)

Brandon Stosuy was interviewed at Brooklyn Magazine.

Jeremy Robert Johnson talked weird fiction with Entropy.

Guernica is holding a fundraiser and release party for their issue on gender.

Kevin Nguyen wrote about Spacebomb Records for The New Republic.

At Grantland: a look at fictional basketball players.

Anna Lyndsey was interviewed about her memoir at Biographile.

Here’s one day in the life of Michael Barron.

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