The New Yorker published an excerpt from Jami Attenberg’s forthcoming memoir.

PEN provided an alarming update to what they’ve dubbed an “education culture war.”

At InsideHook, talking with the people behind the excellent literary true crime podcast Penknife.

Nathan Rabin delved into the first season of Baywatch Nights.

Brooklyn Booksmith hosted a conversation between Jeff VanderMeer and Gus Moreno.

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, notes on Somaiya Daud’s Court of Lions.

Pitchfork explored the triumphant return of ambient jazz.

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