Alice Munro drops the mic.

What’s the deal with the lack of good Saul Bellow film adaptations?

Gary Shteyngart reading some Lorrie Moore for you.

How Alissa Nutting’s Tampa and Amity Gaige’s Schroder rewrite Nabokov’s Lolita.

Hermann Hesse was born on this day in 1877.

Forbes on the people that are keeping zine culture thriving.

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