Vanity Fair has a great piece on Mary McCarthy and The Group.

One of the last dive bars in a Brooklyn neighborhood starts to host literary readings.

The shitshow that erupted when The New Yorker’s owners hired Robert Gottlieb as editor.

Marcel Proust vs. the telephone.

Abraham Riesman basically gives you enough ammo to give Southland Tales a second chance.

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