Cynthia Connolly talked with Pitchfork about the new edition of Banned in DC.

Colson Whitehead explores the history and implications of the phrase “Pics or it didn’t happen.”

Rosie Schaap on the end of Eagle Provisions at Saveur.

There’s new writing from Ned Beauman at The Literary Hub.

At NPR: a look at PEN’s response to censorship in China.

Scenes from the release party for Sean H. Doyle’s This Must Be the Place.

Josh Simmons was interviewed about his comic Black River.

Hazlitt has an excerpt up from Declan Hill’s The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime.

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