Katy Henriksen talked with Protomartyr, and Michael T. Fournier compared their new album to DeLillo’s White Noise.

Caryn Rose on New York landmarks in Patti Smith’s Just Kids.

Ed Park on Dalkey Archive’s Korean literature series.

Scott Esposito revisited Rebecca Solnit’s River of Shadows.

Laura van den Berg interviewed Matthew Salesses.

At the NYPL: bad book reviews from history.

David Obuchowski on his trip to the Great American Beer Festival.

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