At The Nation, thoughts on politics and art in the fiction of Grace Paley.

Jim Shepard was interviewed at Men in Blazers.

Monika Woods has fiction up at Joyland.

At Literary Hub, John Winters wrote about writing a biography of Sam Shepard.

Bookforum reviewed Tom McCarthy’s new essay collection.

A look at a collection of the punk photography of David Godine.

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