Afternoon Bites: Anna Burns, Will Oldham and Libraries, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kate Axelrod Fiction, Rob Spillman, and More


Anna Burns’s Milkman has won this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Will Oldham narrated a documentary about Louisville’s libraries.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar discussed Sherlock Holmes at CrimeReads.

There’s a new story from Kate Axelrod at Joyland.

At McSweeney’s, Rob Spillman wrote about the current state of American politics.

Literary Hub has published an excerpt from Jeff Jackson’s Destroy All Monsters.

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