Is Lou Reed going to become the Lester Bangs to Kanye West’s Lou Reed?

Julia Wertz has some excerpts up from an unreleased book.

Talking Kickstarter and short films with Alan Moore.

SPIN‘s editors have some reissue recommendations for you.

“Ragnar Kjartansson sails circles around Sehgal with his bittersweet-comic S.S. Hangover, a little dinghy with a live brass band.” Jerry Saltz reports on the Venice Biennale.

New fiction from Tom Cowell at Storychord.

“But, to be clear, it is the moment of reflection that is most often being captured: a lover thinking into words the experience of sitting at that table, watching that tongue.” Spencer Dew on Anne Champion’s Reluctant Mistress.

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