“I’m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. I adopted it straight from the ASPCA, you feel me?” –  Lil B’s entire NYU speech is up for your viewing pleasure.

• Rosie Schaap on the charm of day drinking.

• Roxana Robinson on Edith Wharton at The Millions.

• The fires burning under Centralia, Pa. Graham T. Beck visits for The Morning News.

• Our own Jen Vafidis reviews Amelia Gray’s Threats for The Rumpus.

• Electric Literature came to our Greatest 3-Minute Punk Stories event.

• New Lungfish songs from a 1999 session to be released by Dischord on May 14th.

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