Percival Everett’s short story “The Appropriation of Cultures” is well worth reading.

Also fantastic? Alexander Chee’s essay about his time working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.

The preliminary lineup for this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival has been announced.

Anna Heyward wrote about public art in Central Park.

Tobias Carroll interviewed Etgar Keret at Hazlitt.

At Impose: a new video from Shannon and the Clams.

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