Mavis Staples recalls singing “The Weight” at The New Yorker.

Jenn Pelly interviewed Alexander Heir about his art and Death is Not the End, the new collection of his work.

Scott Esposito on David Peace’s Red or Dead.

Andy Beta on the artist Steve Keene, on the occasion of Keene’s first New York City show.

Late Night Library has audio of Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon reading from her novel Nothing.

Talking superheroes with Grant Morrison and Warren Ellis.

Julia Holter has covered Dionne Warwick on a new single.

And here is a dot matrix printer playing Bach.

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