Helena Bonham Carter has optioned Jami Attenberg’s Saint Mazie.

“My body is certain of the next sentence; I am not.” There’s a new essay by Mensah Demary at Catapult.

Lauren Elkin reviewed Alexander Chee’s The Queen of the Night.

At the Times: Roxane Gay on anger and perceptions of it.

Making the case for why Queens needs more general-interest bookstores.

Stephen King was interviewed at Rolling Stone.

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