Brandon Stosuy interviewed Grouper at The Creative Independent.

The shortlist for the 2017/18 Short Story Day Africa Prize has been announced.

At the StarTribune, thoughts on the new edition of Joy Williams’s The Changeling.

There’s a playlist from Elle Nash up now at Largehearted Boy.

Revisiting Philip Roth’s time in the East Village.

BOMB talked reality television and nonfiction with Lucas Mann.

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