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Read fiction from Molly Antopol, Cynthia Bond, Phil Klay, Merrit Tierce, and Jack Livings—your PEN/Bingham Award shortlist. | Literary Hub
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- “Carroll did not, of course, invent the rabbit hole; that distinction belongs to rabbits.” With all due credit given, we can fully endorse this article about the term “rabbit hole.” | The New Yorker
- “The artist shapes a chaotic impulse into order, whereas the person who rambles does not.” An interview with Edward Mullany. | Electric Literature
- Love, Life, Death, and God: on Steven King’s postmodern masterpiece, Roadwork. | Gawker Review of Books
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