Colson Whitehead wrote about the phrase “you do you” for the Times.

Checking in with Chelsea Hodson.

Roxane Gay wrote about the current state of things in Indiana.

Tom Scharpling was interviewed at Grantland.

Chicago Literati has a new essay from Anna Prushinskaya.

Obits have called it a day.

At Flavorwire: an excerpt from Boris and Arkady Strugatsky’s The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn.

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