- Joshua Cohen’s friends drink too much.
- Only Joanna Smith Rakoff can make a book about liberal arts school grads sound interesting.
- Dear aspiring writer, Gary Steyngart doesn’t think you really need to get your MFA.
- Over at Largehearted Boy, Joe Wallace picks some tunes.
- Michael Chabon talks about growing up in Washington D.C.
- T.S. Eliot hated the Jews: a Jew who’s okay with that.
- An open letter to Elie Wiesel.
- A letter from Sam Lipsyte.
- If you’re going to go out of town for one book fair this year, don’t go to Iran.
- The Rumpus talks to Elif Batuman.
- Jonathan Safran Foer hanging out with Israelli writer Amir Gutfreund