Joshua Cohen’s essay on Atlantic City after Hurricane Sandy is excellent reading.

There’s a terrific Victor LaValle interview at Days of Yore.

Here’s a review of the Los Angeles production of the Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots musical.

Emma Straub and the Magnetic Fields sang “Que Sera Sera.”

The National and Shellac’s ATP book club choices.

Paul DiFillippo on Iain M. Banks’s Hydrogen Sonata and space opera.

Etgar Keret would like to recommend a Janet Frame story to you.

Matt Zoller Seitz has a bone to pick with American Masters: David Geffen.

Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures were launched into space.

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