Checking in with Raymond Pettibon at New York.

Birmingham’s new library is a beautiful building.

Alison Hallett on the Portland Zine Symposium.

Talking Calvino at Lapham’s Quarterly.

Jonathan Lethem was interviewed over at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Joyland has new fiction from Rebecca Rosenblum.

Tin House has a new essay from M. Allen Cunningham.

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