Patti Smith’s new memoir is due out this fall.

Scott McClanahan documented a day in his life for Enormous Eye.

The release party for Ryan Chapman’s Conversation Sparks is happening tomorrow at Greenlight Bookstore.

At the New York Review of Books: notes on a lost Georges Perec novel.

The Times reviewed Philip Glass’s memoir Words Without Music.

Elif Batuman wrote about reading racist literature for The New Yorker.

Why readings on airplanes might soon be a thing.

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