Excerpt from Tom Bissell’s upcoming Magic Hours.

“MFAs will replace MBAs, and corporations be more balanced. There is room for us on this new frontier, sister and fellow creative-types. No soul-selling required.”

Four writers from Stripped talk at Necessary Fiction.

The novel in general, and Amelia Gray’s Threats in particular.

Cathy Day on teaching the business of being a writer.

12 additional theme rides and parks that were too expensive for reality. 

Review issue 0, which includes something I’ve said you should read.

“Our students have grown up on screens. They don’t partition off essays from movies from games when they do everything on computers and mobile devices anyway. I try and bring that aesthetic into that classroom.”

I never get tired of reading things like this: An oral history of The Sopranos.

Len Kuntz reviews Kathy Fish’s Together We Can Bury It.

The Tournament of Books and knockoffs.

I just love this letter.

Ravi Mangla’s American Short Fiction interview.

Jason Jordan: World’s Meanest Person.

Turn on subtitles before you start this up (via MeFi):

Very related: This is one of my very favorite ABBA songs. (There are, however, better videos.)

And finally: Honest Spotify playlists.