Kyle Gann reviewed Philip Glass’s Words Without Music for the Times.

Roxane Gay was interviewed at Refinery29.

Highly recommended: Mira Jacob’s “37 Difficult Questions From My Mixed-Race Son.”

Andrea Tsurumi wrote about her love of murder mysteries.

Cheryl Strayed was interviewed on the Longform Podcast.

Feel like reading new serialized fiction from Adrian Van Young?

Mary-Beth Hughes’s The Loved Ones was reviewed at Bookforum.

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