New writing from Sarah McCarry: “For All The Girls Who Are Part Monster.”

“Story collections possessed, frankly, a greater degree of cool than novels. Tom Clancy wrote novels. Lydia Davis wrote stories. Whom did you want to hang with?” Tom Williams on his first short story collection.

At Longreads: the first five chapters of Jami Attenberg’s Saint Mazie.

At Hazlitt: a look inside Scharpling and Wurster’s “Power Pop Pop Pop.”

A look at the current season of Key & Peele with an eye towards gender.

At Double Dot: new writing from Lauren Oyler.

Scott Esposito shares some books from 2015 that have piqued his interest.

When art and gentrification collide in the Bronx.

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