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Watch Alison Bechdel talk about the making of Fun Home. (She jokes that her drawing process is “a barely-harnessed obsessive-compulsive disorder.”)

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“There’s nothing like picking up an early draft of your book off the street to put things in perspective.” (Try weighting it down with cat litter, Gwenda.)

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“Hemingway took two steps toward him and clocked him. He knocked [Plimpton] out cold.” (Via.)

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Michael Chabon defends the novel acknowledgements page.

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Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch discusses the new shape he’s given the venerable magazine. (See also: the deal with EBSCO.)

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