Mark Dery interviewed Jonathan Lethem at BoingBoing.

A number of writers share their messages for straight white male publishing.

Brandi Wells’s This Boring Apocalypse was reviewed at The Collagist.

Notes on Amelia Gray’s Gutshot at Fiction Advocate.

At Pitchfork, a look at strained familial bonds in the works of Sufjan Stevens and The Mountain Goats.

Revisiting the early days of Thursday.

Michael Schaub on inexpensive whiskey.

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