At Quarterly Conversation, a look at Marcel Schwob’s Imaginary Lives.

The Chicago Review of Books delved into two newly-reissued books by Ursula K. Le Guin.

McSweeney’s published an excerpt from Mike Sacks’s Randy: The Full and Complete Unedited Biography and Memoir of the Amazing Life and Times of Randy S.!.

Full Stop reviewed Harry Mathews’s novel The Solitary Twin.

What happens when a Hieronymus Bosch-inspired fowl rides the NYC subway?

Longreads explored the history of the Velvet Underground’s fourth album.

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