Giant Robot chatted with Blake Schwarzenbach about reissuing Jawbreaker’s Chesterfield King and Bivouac.

“I am a Dutch-German-Hungarian-Polish-Russian-Jewish-American woman. Yet every December, I turn into a 19th-century British gentleman.” Rosie Schaap on wassail.

Hobart gives you an in-depth look at the Denny’s Hobbit menu.

Kathleen Alcott and Patrick Somerville chatted at BOMB.

Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading has an excerpt up from Dan Josefson’s That’s Not a Feeling.

At Bookforum: Ruth Franklin on Madeleine L’Engle.

SPIN looks at the videos of Tom Scharpling.

The How-To Issue is looking for more submissions.

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