Afternoon Bites: The State of Portland Zines, Chatting with Corin Tucker, The Return of Braid, and More

Erik Hendriksen chats with the author of Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life and A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Joan Ullman on her relationship with Howard Rosenberg (and Saul Bellow’s fictionalization of it).

Would you like to read a comic about how one becomes a reporter? Well then.

Corin Tucker is interviewed over at Stereogum.

DNAinfo has a report on the pair of bookstores opening in Bushwick.

Braid’s Bob Nanna is interviewed at Sound of the City.

Jessica Hopper on Haley Fohr.

WORD has its own van, which will hopefully commence an era of literary drag-racing in north Brooklyn.

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