At Shondaland, a conversation with Tara Isabella Burton.

PEN has a petition in support of the assistant principal who was fired for reading to second graders.

This year’s Lambda Literary Award finalists have been announced.

Harper’s published new nonfiction by Rachel Kushner.

Tough Poets Press is reissuing a novel by Steve Katz.

LitReactor published an excerpt from David James Keaton’s forthcoming novel.

The Quietus has a roundup of notable recent crime fiction.

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