Amanda Petrusich has written about the impending closure of BookCourt.

Book Riot has assembled a list of the year’s best books.

Vulture has as well.

Paul Constant reviewed Matthew Simmons’s collection The In-Betweens.

Sarah Jaffe interviewed Michelle Tea at BOMB.

At Read It Forward, thoughts on new permutations of the nonfiction novel.

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