Rob Sheffield talked to Pitchfork about his new book about David Bowie.

Lisa Lucas interviewed C.E. Morgan about her novel The Sport of Kings.

Smithsonian Magazine has new nonfiction from Vanessa Veselka.

Ally-Jane Grossan on food and the Piedmont blues tradition.

At Literary Hub, an excerpt from Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue.

Attempting to define Canadian bacon at Extra Crispy.

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