At Literary Hub, Alexander Chee interviewed Michaelangelo Signorile about his new book It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality.

Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz reacted to the ongoing human rights crisis in the Dominican Republic.

Sofia Samatar on Can Xue’s Five Spice Street.

Brooks Headley’s Superiority Burger has opened in the East Village, and Eater has a report.

At io9: a cyberpunk reading list.

Brandon Hobson interviewed Chelsea Hodson at The Believer.

New poetry from Wendy C. Ortiz and Sean H. Doyle.

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Evelyn McDonnell interviewed Richard Goldstein.

Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.