Melville House has audio up from 1993 of Derek Raymond reading from his fantastic novel I Was Dora Suarez. They’ve recently reissued his Factory novels, some of the bleakest, most intense crime fiction you’re likely to read.

• Earlier this year, we interviewed the Brooklyn-based instrumental rock quartet BELLS≥. They have a new EP out now.

• At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Magdalena Edwards looks at the work of Norman Rush.

• At Dusted, Vol.1’s Tobias Carroll has some thoughts on Richard Swift’s Walt Wolfman EP.