Amy Hempel talked about her new collection at BOMB.

Namwali Serpell discussed The Old Drift at Bustle and Longreads.

3:AM published an excerpt from Fleur Jaeggy’s Proleterka.

BookMarks has compiled a list of great books about baseball.

At Guernica, thoughts on David Means’s Instructions for a Funeral.

The Quietus revisited the music of Henryk Górecki.

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