Laura van den Berg shared her unlikely literary influences with Boston.com.

“So rather than talk about why book buyers should privilege marginalized writers, let’s talk about why they might want to do so.” New writing from Saladin Ahmed at Gizmodo.

The Paris Review and the Big Ears Festival are collaborating on a multimedia essay delving into (among many other subjects) Joseph Mitchell.

Here’s a joint interview with Atticus Lish and John Benditt.

William Boyle was interviewed at Nerve.

The New York Post profiled Bushwick’s Catland Books.

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