Did Marnie Stern make the best album of 2013?

When candy meets literature — now in convenient book-cover form.

Chip Zdarsky talked comics with Chris Sims.

Looking back at 2013’s most underrated books.

New poetry from Sasha Fletcher at Vice.

The Los Angeles Review of Books looks into Tamil pulp fiction.

Hyperallergic shares their poetry recommendations for the year that was.

Storychord’s latest issue has new music from No Other and new fiction from Elisabeth Donnelly.

At Dusted, Doug Mosurock shares his thoughts on music in 2013.

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