Vice interviewed Sunil Yapa about his new novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist.

Bookforum reviewed Amber Sparks’s collection The Unfinished World and Other Stories.

Entropy has a new essay from Scott Esposito.

Nathan Rabin delved into the history of “Bob Dylan’s Purple Rain.”

Blunderbuss has new writing from Lynn Steger Strong.

Meredith Turits recommends eleven books for winter reading.

Exploring the history of Saul Bellow’s last interview.

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