Weekend Links (Not the Golf Kind)

Something for the weekend, something for the soul, something for you:

• How do you choose what book to read? "Is the book published by a company that you’ve never heard of — or, far worse, does that company appear to share the last name of the author or his yacht?"

• Sana Krasikov, author of the new story collection One More Year, writes about reading Andre Dubus in Iowa at The Millions.

• James Marcus interviews Philip Roth in the Los Angeles Times.

• Slate is running excerpts of State by State, a new book featuring essays on all 50 states. Vroman's will be hosting a screening of Powell's Out of the Book film of State by State on Friday, October 10.

Sleep late tomorrow. You deserve it.