The Fanzine has an excerpt up from Lindsay Hunter’s Ugly Girls.

Alan Sepinwall reviewed the HBO miniseries adaptation of Olive Kitteridge.

At The Toast: “Publishing While Black: A Scratch Roundtable.”

Rahawa Haile on the music of Eritrea.

Pitchfork on the Seattle music collective Black Constellation.

There’s a forthcoming book looking at the Criterion Collection’s design work.

John Darnielle talked Wolf in White Van on KCRW.

Jess Row was interviewed at The New Yorker.

At The Le Sigh: thoughts on S’s Cool Choices.

Chloe Caldwell’s Women was reviewed at the Barnes & Noble Review.

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