Jami Attenberg talked with Judy Blume for Buzzfeed, and with Emily Gould for The Rumpus.

Ali Smith has won this year’s Baileys Prize.

Sarah Gerard talked notebooks at Hazlitt.

At Literary Hub, Michele Filgate wrote about female friendship in literature.

Will Sheff wrote about the new album from Bill Fay for The Talkhouse.

Ned Raggett on a San Francisco Mountain Goats show.

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