Guernica has an excerpt up from Hilton Als’s fantastic White Girls.

Also in news of excerpts: Tin House has one up from Cari Luna’s novel of the Lower East Side in the mid-90s, The Revolution of Every Day.

“Sanes’ existential missives are so precisely articulated that even without the screaming and scowling they’d still be grating.” Jenn Pelly on the self-titled full-length from Hoax.

Comics Alliance has three highlights from this weekend’s New York Comic Con.

New fiction from Lincoln Michel at The Collagist.

At Flavorwire: “Who Wrote It: James Franco or Jenna Jameson?”

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