Hilary Mantel’s portrait is hanging in the British Library, making her the first living writer to be able to say she saw a painting of herself hung in the world famous institution.

Karl Ove Knausgård talks with The New Yorker.

That one time Graham Greene “slut-shamed Shirley Temple.”

 On McNally Jackson’s Goods for the Study store.

Ruth Ozeki talks at The New School.

And the Hatchet Job of the Year goes to…

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