On the Believer website, Sheila Heti interviews Patricia Lockwood as part of a new ongoing series of conversations about Twitter. "The only thing that dictates whether I respond to someone is whether I have something interesting to say in return," Lockwood says of her Twitter habits. "I respond to people I don’t know at all, when their tweet hauls a nice fresh bucket of water up out of me, but if it comes up empty then I just stay quiet."

Scott Esposito, editor of the Quarterly Conversation, takes issue with Tim Parks’s recent New York Review of Books blog piece on Knausgaard. Parks suggests

Jeb Lund picks on Ed Klein’s new book about the Clintons, Blood Feud—specifically, Klein’s calling attention to Hillary’s swearing: “Utilizing someone's occasional profanity as the basis of a character attack is up there with a sinister ad voiceover saying, Candidate John Cussbrother uses toilets.”

Former judge Stuart Kelly makes predictions for the Man Booker prize longlist, and wonders if an American writer will make the cut.

The Washington Post has launched Storyline, a new online vertical devoted to policy journalism. The site vows to distinguish itself with data journalism and daily

The Baffler debuts a sleek new website this week, for the first time collecting its full digital archive from 1988 to the current issue, which includes: “25 issues, 432 contributors, 277 salvos, 450 graphics, 172 poems, 73 stories, 3,396 pages made of 1,342,785 words.” There’s something for every cheerful pessimist: Nicholson Baker’s “Dallas Killers Club,” say, or Eileen Myles’s story “Springs,” or the savage caricatures of Ralph Steadman.

The New Inquiry considers two books by civilians about veterans who commit suicide: David Finkel’s Thank You For Your Service andThank You For Your Service

Robert Stein, an editor at magazines such as McCall’s and Redbook, died last week at age 90. In its obituary, the Times points out that McCall’s (known as a “women’s magazine”) evolved rapidly under Stein’s innovative leadership: “He led in-depth coverage of the civil rights movement in its early days, interviewed President John F. Kennedy on nuclear weapons, polled seminarians in 1961 on their religious beliefs.” Stein brought a number of boldface names to his magazines: Gloria Steinam, Margaret Mead, Harper Lee, and Martin Luther King Jr. He not only hired Pauline Kael, but also fired her.

Fifteen early stories by Elmore Leonard have been acquired by the British publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson, to appear in the fall of 2015. HarperCollins will publish the American edition.

Pinterest is “untapped” as a driver of traffic, Buzzfeed’s vice president of growth and data tells Forbes. You can pin anything—not just photos of attractive sofas. If Twitter use is slowing, as has been ominously hinted, the opposite seems to be happening with Pinterest, which has more female users and possibly more users overall.

Gawker looks askance at the new “editorial standards” by which Buzzfeed is

At the Believer, Sheila Heti interviews Christian Lorentzen, an editor at the LRB and a regular Bookforum contributor, about his Twitter oeuvre, including the “fake livetweeting” that is one of his specialties. Lorentzen's Twitter persona is “deliberately unstable”: “It was natural from the start to throw my voice around, to be ‘me’ or ‘not me’ in tweets.” Reading Twitter, he says, is like “watching a stream of garbage flow in order to see what colour the trash is today.” His most recent piece for Bookforum was a review of Emily Gould’s novel, Friendship.

Rupert Murdoch’s Twitter oeuvre has

Harper Lee, the reclusive writer of To Kill a Mockingbird, issued a biting letter on Monday in response to Marja Mills’s newly published memoir, The Mockingbird Next Door, which describes Mills’s friendship with Lee and her sister Alice. Mills became friends with the pair in 2004, after she moved in next door to them. "It did not take long to discover Marja's true mission,” Lee writes. “I was hurt, angry and saddened, but not surprised. I immediately cut off all contact with Miss Mills, leaving town whenever she headed this way."

Simon & Schuster is apparently “in talks” with Amazon but has

Slate welcomes Julia Turner as its new editor in chief. Turner is taking over from David Plotz, who held the position for six years. She won’t be making any drastic changes, she says: “David and I have worked so closely together, so harmoniously and for so long, that the magazine as it is reflects much of my thinking.”

On Monday, David Mitchell posted three dozen tweets, the first installments in his Twitter short story, "The Right Sort," narrated by a teenager on Valium.

The Feminist Times failed to raise enough money from a recent crowdfunding campaign to remain in operation, it has announced

South African novelist Nadine Gordimer died yesterday evening at her home in Johannesburg. She was 90. Rachel Aviv reviewed Gordimer's Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black for Bookforum in 2008.

Germany has won the World Cup. The tournament was record-breaking for Univision, which has enjoyed very high numbers of viewers in Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, and New York. Even before yesterday’s finals, the network had drawn 80 million viewers, 60 percent more than it did for the 2010 games.

The New York Times considers the Amazon monopoly through one of Amazon's writers, Vincent Zandri: “He is edited

Riverhead Books has announced that Sarah McGrath will be its new editor in chief. McGrath has been an acquiring editor at Riverhead since 2006, and has worked with Khaled Hosseini, Meg Wolitzer, and Chang-rae Lee, among others.

The New York Times has hired Katie Rosman of the Wall Street Journal to be a columnist for its style section.

Recently, the National Academy of Sciences journal published an article drawing on data gathered by Facebook without its users’ knowledge or consent. In the experiment, Facebook manipulated the newsfeeds of nearly 700,000 people in order to judge whether their

In a letter on Tuesday, Amazon said they would give Hachette authors 100 percent of profits of e-book sales. Hachette said to accept the offer would be “suicide.” Amazon said it would be no such thing. But the online retailer, which has been trying to extract better terms on e-book sales from Hachette for months, has little to lose; giving away e-books would cost Hachette far more. The public bickering follows a letter signed by hundreds of writers demanding that Amazon "stop harming the livelihood of the authors on whom it has built its business." Roxana Robinson, the president of the Authors

Adam Bellow—son of Saul Bellow, as he must tire of being reminded—has compiled a Buzzfeed list for readers worried about “the ingrained (and often unconscious) liberalism of mainstream popular culture.” Never fear! There is “a growing countercultural revolt” that has “escaped widespread notice,” and all you need to do is turn to Bellow’s website, Liberty Island, to find examples of “the best in conservative fiction”: say, The Holy Land, a “delightfully un-PC” sci-fi novel “reflecting satirically on the Middle East conflict”; or the Will Tripp novels, about a “pissed off attorney at law” (“Spare