Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (February 24th)

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Looking for some interesting reading to get you through the week? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out:

Emily St. John Mandel and Laura van den Berg discuss the apocalypse and the end of genre labels

A tour of David Foster Wallace’s Boston

Someone is publishing an X-Files YA novel

A look at some great writers that “nobody reads”

Jonathan Lethem explains how to arrange short story collections

The Paris Review gives some advice on naming characters

Amazon pulls a self-published memoir by a convicted serial killer

A tribute to horror writer Richard Matheson

A defense of conflict in literature

Kelly Link and Keith Lee Morris discuss unruly characters

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