Benjamin Samuel of Electric Literature talks to Jacket Copy about Recommended Reading.

Roxane Gay tackles Girls at The Rumpus. Also, Roxane Gay has just made all other think pieces on Girls totally irrelevant.

Book Riot talks to Emily St. John Mandel.

Bret Easton Ellis will review your novel for $5,000.

Who doesn’t love fictional rich people of the 1980s?  (It seemed fitting to post this after something about Bret Easton Ellis.)

The Fox Mole got a really sweet book deal.

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