At Bookforum, Tom Carson reviewed James Wolcott’s collection Critical Mass.

The Dissolve has a look at a number of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations starring Vincent Price.

Pitchfork’s Elliott Smith oral history is worth reading.

Flavorwire has a preview up of Peter Bagge’s new biography of Margaret Sanger.

Heller McAlpin on Philip Roth and Claudia Roth Pierpont’s biography of him.

Seattle two-piece powerviolence outfit Iron Lung talked with Noisey.

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