Granta has published an excerpt from Amelia Gray’s Isadora.

Jeff Jackson was interviewed at The Believer.

Kyle Lucia Wu reported from the Academy of American Poets’ 15th Annual Poetry and the Creative Mind.

The New York Times has new nonfiction by Alexander Chee.

Hazlitt talked with Paul Auster.

At Stereogum, here’s Sad13’s Carole King cover.

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