“Discussing diversity in publishing is the worst kind of Groundhog Day.” New writing from Roxane Gay at NPR.

Amanda Petrusich wrote about a collection of songs written (but never recorded) by Karen Dalton.

Jeff VanderMeer on the fiction of Michael Cisco.

At Entropy, a review of Wendy C. Ortiz’s Hollywood Notebook.

Judy Berman wrote about Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels.

BOMB talked with Damon & Naomi.

Stunning images from a trip inside an abandoned mine in Virginia.

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