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Brian Dillon and Esther Leslie on Walter Benjamin (podcast). * Walter Benjamin, our contemporary. * Claire-Louise Bennett in conversation with Brian Dillon. * My review of Claire-Louise Bennett‘s wonderful Pond for the Guardian. * Claire-Louise Bennett interviewed in The Skinny. * Lydia Davis reads from a work-in-progress, a fake autobiography (video). * Lydia Davis on one of her father’s stories. * “Fifty-Seven” by Rachel Kushner. (More here.) * Marina Warner on the history of the destruction of art. * The ageing of art. * An extract from an interview with Gordon Lish: “I saw in Carver’s pieces something I could fuck around with. There was a prospect there, certainly. The germ of the thing, in Ray’s stuff, was revealed in the catalogue of his experience. It had that promise in it, something I could fool with and make something new-seeming”. * On Marianne Moore. * Happy birthday Viv Albertine! (podcast). * Julien Temple‘s Punk Can Take It (video). * An excellent radio interview with Richard Cabut. * Tom Overton on John Berger. * Tom Overton on Josef Koudelka. * A brilliant, in-depth interview with Gabriel Josipovici by Victoria Best. *   The first issue of Barthes Studies. * Roland Barthes at 100. * The Telegraph on Barthes. * Michael Wood, Penny Sparke, Nick James, Andrew Hussey, and yours truly on Roland Barthes (The Essay, BBC Radio 3). * The second issue of The Scofield is devoted to “Kay Boyle & Love“. * Max Porter on Little Atoms (Resonance FM). * Writing grief: an interview with Max Porter. * Kenneth Goldsmith interviewed: “I tell truths that people find disturbing, but I never do it to disturb people purposely”. * Jeremy Allen reports back from the Stade de France. * Andrew Hussey on the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris. * The Guardian and LRB on Le Bataclan. * Jeremy Harding on the New Normal. * Writers respond to the Paris attacks. * Joanna Walsh on gaps and surfaces. * Noy Holland on writing fiction: “Listen for the voice, I say, that escapes, and comes around behind you”. * Female writers and the anxiety of influence. * A beginner’s guide to Jean-Luc Godard. * Richard Hell. * Christopher Tayler reviews Tom McCarthy‘s Satin Island in the LRB. * Charlie Brown and Peanuts: “Certainly, Ibsen and Strindberg made a lot of sense to me as an adult because I was raised on Peanuts. Even now, if I look at Munch’s The Scream I can imagine what Charlie Brown would have looked like had he ever grown up – bald, wizened and existentially demented through worry. Just as well he never did grow up.” * Charles Schulz and loserdom. * Ezra Pound. * Will Self on why looks matter (audio), Bristol, the infamous Cereal Killer cafe, and the Trafford Centre. * Will Self and Hanif Kureishi on the suburban consciousness. * Snatch. * Bob Stanley on Jon Savage‘s 1966. * Jon Savage in conversation with David Hepworth (podcast). * Karl Ove Knausgaard: “All of a sudden, I understood that the people coming across the sea were not people in the plural, but in the singular”. * Knausgaard reviews Houellebecq‘s Submission. * Remembering Chris Marker. * A new Proust biography. * Carlo Mollino‘s Polaroids. * Geoff Dyer and others on the fine line between fact and fiction. * Writers who reveal all. * Richard Lea on the rise of the present tense in fiction. * The odyssey of the sentence. * Why you should read William H. Gass. * Tim Parks on a novel kind of conformity. * On Joan Didion. * The history of the pea-souper. * Tod Wodicka on Nice. * Punk revisionism at Mont-de-Marsan. * On bilingual people. * A 2003 interview with David Foster Wallace (video). * Lars Iyer on his Wittgenstein Jnr. * Shane MacGowan‘s new set of gnashers. * “Five Parties” by Ned Beauman. * TS Eliot and the sexual wasteland. * Zadie Smith on Dante‘s Inferno — a perfect rendition of nothing. * Rediscovering Bette Howland.

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