Morning Bites: Chabon cover, Columbia College lays off fiction, “Animal Farm” hope, Israeli author protection program, and more

That’s the Stax Records/60s bubblegum/Soul Train inspired cover of Michael Chabon’s forthcoming Telegraph Avenue.  (Via Sarah Weinman’s Twitter)

• While you’re at AWP in Chicago, you should stop by Columbia College and see why they’re laying off the Chair of the Fiction Writing Department.  Seems worth checking out.

• Your Longread suggestion of the day is at The Atlantic: “How ‘Animal Farm’ Gave Hope to Stalin’s Refugees.”

• Then move on to this Los Angeles Review of Books essay on Bruno Schulz.

• They’re protecting the authors in Israel.

• Sara Levine talks to The Bat Segundo Show.

• John Jeremiah Sullivan talks to Critical Mob about Pulphead.

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