Rain Taxi talked fiction with Mark Haber.

At 3:AM, thoughts on three very different takes on France and all things literary.

Vulture reviewed John Mulaney’s new Netflix special.

Feel like reading a neatly metafictional Christmas story by Emily VanDerWerff?

Electric Literature published new writing by Laurie Stone.

The Quietus discussed the year’s best albums.

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