Akashic Books will be releasing a book tribute to Kurt Cobain written by the co-founder of Hole, Eric Erlandson.  Apparently Courtney Love hasn’t given the book her blessing.

• Junot Díaz will be releasing This Is How You Lose Her, a new collection of short stories on Riverhead in September.

• You know who the greatest comic book hero is?  Hint: it isn’t Aquaman.

• Helen Simpson talks to The Paris Review about her collection, In-Flight Entertainment.

• The guy from Virgin Forest talks about some Faulkner, Nick Tosches, and a bunch of other stuff in an essay for Impose.

• On Walter Benjamin’s shadow and the surge of academic interest in his work.

• Anybody want to buy some shares in a Scottish whiskey company?

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