Pitchfork has a look at Patti Smith’s music before Horses.

Feel like reading an excerpt from Nick Harkaway’s forthcoming novel Tigerman?

A look at the works of Charles Portis.

Slice interviewed Emily Raboteau.

Anya Ulinich on Karolina Waclawiak’s How to Get Into the Twin Palms.

Noveller has a collaborative album with thisquietarmy due out soon.

Electric Literature’s launch party for Courtney Maum’s I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You is tonight.

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