Good evening literature lovers. Here's a round-up of today's must-read literary news and commentary.

An interview with Brian Evenson: The novelist on solipsism, disembodied heartbeats and religious apostasy (The White Review)
Hunter Thompson's widow returns Hemingway antlers: Thompson took the antlers from Hemingway’s Idaho home while on assignment for the National Observer (Galley Cat)
Library use in England fell dramatically over last decade (The Guardian)
In Conversation With Colson Whitehead: The The Underground Railroad author talks Oprah’s endorsement and avoiding clichés (Vulture)
A Good Story, if I Can Remember It: Tracking down the memories of anti-apartheid writer and editor Sylvester Stein. (Lapham's Quarterly)
The Big I: Chasing Amy and the toxic “nerd masculinity” of the nineties. (The Paris Review)
The Weak Spot: New fiction by Sophie Mackintosh (Granta)
Thomas McGuane on Papaya, his story in this week’s New Yorker (The New Yorker)
Two short pieces by Chilean literature’s ‘best kept secret’: Roberto Merino considers the feelings and memories evoked by seasonal change (The Guardian)
Dreaming Up Rio: A new collection of photographs of the Rio of the belle époque. (The New York Review of Books)

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