“You may not want to be writing like the books you read when you were young, but I’m trying to replicate the reading experience. I’m not mimicking the style or the genre, just the reading sauce and the experience sauce and how you spread it all over.” The Outlet reports on Heidi Julavits’s recent appearance at The Center for Fiction.

• The EMP Pop Conference kicks off this evening at NYU, incorporating everything from a discussion of metal in Jakarta to a lecture from GZA.

• Julia Wertz critiques her own Drinking at the Movies and shares letters from rehab.

• Ryan Chapman reflects on SXSW 2012.

• Emily Schultz on the science of her upcoming novel The Blondes.

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