At Rain Taxi, thoughts on Ronald Johnson’s Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses.

The NYPL is holding a back-t0-school supplies giveaway event.

Leanne Shapton wrote about art at the New York Review of Books.

Bright Wall/Dark Room revisited the film Thief.

Pigeon Pages published fiction by Kate Finegan.

At Literary Hub, an excerpt from Paul Murray’s new novel.

Good news for fans of Charles Simonds’s Dwellings.

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