Carl Wilson on folk songs and industrial disasters.

Tobi Vale interviewed Perfect Pussy vocalist Meredith Graves.

New fiction from Alison Espach at Joyland.

The Rumpus talked with The Parallel Apartments author Bill Cotter.

Tasha Robinson on why the graphic novel Sailor Twain would make a fine film.

Abraham Riesman talks comics (and more) at The Bygone Bureau.

The best conversation about writing about the marshes of East London you’ll ever read.

At Pitchfork, Jason Heller looks at a reissue of music from Offenders.

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