Kimberly King Parsons reviewed Julie Buntin’s Marlena at Bookforum.

At Quarterly Conversation, Hal Hlavinka on Mathias Énard’s Compass.

Rob Hart talked with MP Johnson at LitReactor.

David Ulin wrote about Joan Didion’s nonfiction for Literary Hub.

Pitchfork talked music and comedy with John Mulaney.

Where Nobel Prize speeches and Sparknotes meet….

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