Tiphanie Yanique made a playlist for her novel Land of Love and Drowning.

Michele Filgate has an excellent essay on cities and anxiety in the new Brooklyn Quarterly.

The time Matt Bell and Brian Evenson chatted for The Believer.

New nonfiction from Roxane Gay at The Morning News.

Slate reviewed Catherine Lacey’s Nobody is Ever Missing.

New fiction from Matt Dojny at Better.

Sacred Bones Records assembled a mixtape for Greenpointers.

Thoughts on Jess Walter’s collection We Live in Water at Bookmunch.

Grayson Currin has a review of Mike Cooper and Steve Gunn’s recent collaboration.

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