The StarTribune talked with Michaelangelo Matos about pop music and 1984.

PEN is holding a workshop series for emerging writers.

Feel like seeing the cover of Rivers Solomon’s next book?

The Baffler delved into Judith Schlansky’s An Inventory of Losses.

The Johannesburg Review of Books published an excerpt from Yamen Manai’s The Ardent Swarm.

Emma Straub wrote about Fairway for Curbed.

The Quietus has details on Jennifer Lucy Allan’s forthcoming book on foghorns, which sounds amazing.

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