“…my work is concerned with this tension, what my editor called “the pull of biology on our modern lives” — moments when our animal nature, instincts, or affinity for the natural world surprise us.” Megan Mayhew Bergman is interviewed at Full Stop.

Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions contains work from the likes of Amelia Gray, Aimee Bender, Sarah Rose Etter, and Michael Kimball.

Nitsuh Abebe on Damon Albarn’s Doctor Dee.

Sound author T.M. Wolf made a playlist for Largehearted Boy.

Chris Tarantino on Spiritualized’s recent Terminal 5 show.

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