Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to debut as an opera.

• Happy National Novel Writing Month.  Here are six works that were written in under 31 days to serve as inspiration for you.

• Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot were were penpals.

• Emma Straub writes about the death of River Phoenix and the effect it had on her for Rookie.

• Vol. 1’s Jason Diamond hangs out with Gigantic Mag’s James Yeh to listen to the new Real Estate album over at Impose.

• Stream the Beach Boys SMiLE sessions.

• Revisiting Slayer’s Regin in Blood 25 years after it was released.