Longreads has an excerpt from Matthew Gavin Frank’s The Mad Feast.

Talking Thanksgiving with Meredith Graves.

Gabino Iglesias on the writing of his novel Zero Saints.

Notes on the making of apple pie (without using apples).

At Largehearted Boy: Ryan Britt’s playlist for Luke Skywalker Can’t Read.

Sarah Seltzer talked with fifteen people about the music women introduced them to.

Full Stop on Zachary Thomas Dodson’s Bats of the Republic.

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