“I learned of him as the sort of purifying fire every work of fiction needs.” Alexander Nazaryan on Gordon Lish, at Newsweek.

Hilton Als on art and race at The New Yorker.

The Chilltown Literary Festival is coming to Jersey City in July.

Hyperallergic delves into Susan Sontag’s FBI file.

Nick Curley interviewed John Waters about his new book about hitchhiking.

Feel like watching Mitchell S. Jackson, Kiese Laymon, and Guernica‘s Lisa Lucas in conversation?

This year’s A Public Space Emerging Writer Fellows have been announced.

Dusted looks at the latest album from Sweden’s The Skull Defekts, which features Daniel Higgs from Lungfish.

Feel like watching a play based on the life of Jack Kirby?

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