“Over the last 11 years or so, I’ve mostly just listened to Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan.” Destroyer’s Dan Bejar was interviewed at Pitchfork.

At Literary Hub: a Memorial Day reading list from Matt Gallagher.

The Offing has an excerpt from Colin Winnette’s novel Haints Stay.

The New Inquiry has some recommended summer reading for you.

Tim Wu wrote about urban blight in the West Village for The New Yorker.

The case for Mordecai Richler, at Ploughshares.

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