Morning Bites: Riot Grrrl and Literature, ALA Award Winners, Mark Doten, “Southern Grammar” Reviewed, and More

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Elisa Albert’s After Birth was reviewed (and Riot Grrrl’s influence on literature considered) at Electric Literature.

Sarah Seltzer wrote about the winners of this year’s ALA Awards.

Guernica has an excerpt up from Mark Doten’s novel The Infernal.

Hanging out with the Baker Street Irregulars and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Mairead Case’s latest column at Bookslut looks at the color yellow.

At Hazlitt, a look at “blank chic.”

Pitchfork has a look at Hiss Golden Messenger’s Southern Grammar EP.

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