Paule Marshall was born on this day in 1929. The New York Times interviewed her about her memoir Triangular Road in 2009.

Chastity Belt were interviewed at Impose.

As always, Mairead Case’s reading diary at Bookslut is essential reading.

At Brittle Paper: notes on Nadine Gordimer and literary childhoods.

Brazos Bookstore talked with Civil Coping Mechanisms’ Michael J. Seidlinger.

Ned Raggett talked with Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore for The Quietus.

At BOMB, Tobias Carroll interviewed Liturgy’s Hunter Hunt-Hendrix.

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