At BOMB, Lauren LeBlanc wrote about Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel The Book of Joan.

Jeff VanderMeer made the case for Kirsten Bakis’s Lives of the Monster Dogs.

At Civil Coping Mechanisms, Joanna C. Valente recommended a host of essays.

Literary Hub posted highlights from the Red Ink Reading Series’s “Misfits” event.

China Miéville talked with the New York Times about his book on the Russian Revolution.

At Hazlitt, Rafe Bartholomew wrote about his father, poetry, and old New York bars.

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