Philip Roth was born on this day in 1933.

• Sarah Manguso talks to Brad Listi at the Other People podcast.

• Philip Lopate reviews the collection of John Leonard’s essays, Reading For My Life: Writings, 1958-2008, for the New York Times.

• Emma Straub goes to the Museum of Natural History for Rookie.

• At Harpers, Scott Horton asks Masha Gessen six questions.  Gessen’s The Man Without a Face is reviewed in this week’s New Yorker .

• What President Obama’s NCAA brackets say to one person.

• Robbing Russian sushi restaurants with axes.

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