Feel like reading new fiction from César Aira?

Here are this year’s National Book Critics Circle Award winners.

Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell were interviewed at Brooklyn Magazine.

Christopher R. Weingarten went behind the scenes at Amateur Night at the Apollo.

If you’d like to read another excerpt from Tiffany Scandal’s Jigsaw Youth, you are in luck.

The new album from the Fucked Up-affiliated band Young Guv was reviewed at Pitchfork.

Douglas Wolk has a terrific piece about a Sam Cooke live album.

At Impose, Eric Paul recalls the time his old band opened for Marilyn Manson in 1995.

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