Afternoon Bites: Lynn Steger Strong Interviewed, Walter Mosley On Muhammad Ali, Emma Straub, Amie Barrodale’s Latest, and More

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At The Rumpus, Michele Filgate interviewed Lynn Steger Strong.

“I do not come from artists. What I come from is a line of almosts, of not-quites.” Here’s a new essay from Sara Lippmann.

Walter Mosley wrote about Muhammad Ali for the New York Times.

At NPR: Emma Straub on Ditmas Park and her new novel Modern Lovers.

Kaitlin Phillips reviewed Amie Barrodale’s collection You Are Having a Good Time for Bookforum.

The Atlantic explores new ways of plagiarism as self-publishing increases.

CASH Music has launched a new publication, Watt.

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