This week brings the sad news that Paula Fox has died. Her interview with Lynne Tillman for BOMB is well worth revisiting.

At Pitchfork, you can read Chance the Rapper’s introduction to Kevin Coval’s A People’s History of Chicago.

Vice has new writing from inside a Texas prison.

At Literary Hub, a glimpse of what’s next in the Object Lessons series of short books.

Bookforum has an interview with Kelly Luce.

Talking all things literary with Book of the Month judge Laia Garcia.

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