Excellent interview with author Amy Hempel.

Paul Ford: I don’t really make decisions. Instead, I pick my friends carefully. Then I go where people ask me to go; when no one needs me to go anywhere or do anything I work on longer essays that I’ll publish some day.

A great, short profile directed by Spike Jonze

Profile of the rising rapper.

‘An oral history of the British experimental rock act's remarkable Five EPs.’

A first-hand account of hanging around Young Jeezy for a few days.

‘Every artist deals with critics differently—Richard Ford spitting on Colson Whitehead, for example. But the rule is to avoid direct contact. Not for John Warner, debut novelist, who decided to seek out the man behind his worst review.’

My friend Niko Rivas interviewed me and wrote up this great column on my Lapwing EP.

Humanizing and well-written. Spoiler: she doesn't have a penis.

Interview with author Sumie Kawakami about sexless marriages and the falling birth rate in Japan. Covers a lot of interesting ground, if lightly.

"Sean Booth of the British duo Autechre talks about just about everything but how he and partner Rob Brown make music."