Eleven PDX checked in with Monica Drake.

Dzanc Books will be accepting submissions for their first Prize for Fiction beginning April 1.

Carlos Velásquez assembled a playlist for his book The Cowboy Bible.

Janet Maslin reviewed Kaitlyn Greenidge’s novel We Love You, Charlie Freeman.

Camille DeAngelis on post-apocalyptic libraries.

Thoughts on Andrew F. Sullivan’s novel Waste.

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