Alice Kaplan on the history and power of Louis Guilloux’s novel Blood Dark.

Jason Diamond wrote about his love for Vintage Contemporaries at Longreads.

A whole lot of authors we like are taking part in a ghost story auction to benefit a youth writing nonprofit.

Electric Literature discussed Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach.

Talking with Television’s Richard Lloyd about his forthcoming memoir.

Slate looked at recent attempts to turn the Nancy Drew books into a television series.

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