Today brings with it a new issue of Guernica, featuring (among others) an excerpt from Mark de Silva’s Square Wave.

Some thoughts on literary events: Nick Harkaway on festivals paying writers, and Tim Johnson on assembling good panels.

The Believer has named their favorite books of 2015.

Checking in with Good on Paper author Rachel Cantor.

The Outer Dark podcast has an interview with Rios de la Luz.

Some recommended music from 2015 from The Big Takeover‘s Jack Rabid.

A reissue of a mid-1970s album from Prix, featuring Alex Chilton and Chris Bell, is due out soon.

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