The United States operated a secret town in Eastern Tennessee as part of the Manhattan Project in the 1940s.  A Continuos Lean has photos of the government’s top secret town.

• Joseph Pulitzer was born on this day in 1847.

• The witches of Lancashire get poetry.

• Sam McPheeters talks to LA Weekly about his new book The Loom of Ruin.

• Nancy Cohen (Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution is Polarizing America) is the guest on the latest Bat Segundo show.

• New fiction by Ryan Chang at Art Faccia.

• Dan Duray at Gallerist finds two nasty Thomas Kinkade obituaries.

• Lil B is dropping a mixtape to commemorate his upcoming speech at NYU.

• Pulp played Jimmy Fallon.

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