The Detroit News on Julia Reyes Taubman’s photobook Detroit: 138 Square Miles 

• If you’re looking to read one piece on skateboarding that has a Don DeLillo quote, The Classical has got you covered.

• Two of our favorites, Deborah Eisenberg and Emma Straub, tell us about their year in reading at The Millions.

• Vogue picks their best books of 2011.

• Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News: Meh or pretty okay? 

• The books that Lev Grossman is looking forward to in 2012.

• Pictures from a Pop Up Flea.

• Singer Dobie Gray has passed away.

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