“Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind” Hey, it’s the Jack Kerouac guide to life (and also to prose).

• At Capital New York, Jacob Silverman talks to Heidi Julavits.

• “What I was coming to understand, though, was that my mother did not come into the world fully formed in 1981, when I was born, that there was a complicated and somehow painful life that predated me.” Elisabeth Donnelly on watching Mad Men with her mother.

• Anthology Film Archives is hosting a retrospective of the films of Sara Driver.

• Band Booking alums Diehard have written a song called “Steinbeck.”

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