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The Justice Dept. broke its own rules, subpoenaed a news site for details of all reader visits on a certain day.

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Can’t get enough of The Paris Review Interviews

My appreciation of The Paris Review Interviews I-IV is up at NPR. An excerpt: The advice on offer to aspiring writers is vast– and sometimes contradictory. In his introduction, Orhan Pamuk recalls discovering Faulkner’s interview while he was holed up with his first novel after dropping out of architectural school, and finding the answer to the question that seemed most . . .

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Fureners

“Gravity keeps us on the ground at all times.” Jessa Crispin on foreign fiction in the U.S., and her parents’ confusion about Germany.

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