Tor has an excerpt up from Louisa Hall’s Speak.

At the Times: a look at the life of the man who inspired William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow.”

Joyland has new translated fiction from Valérie Mréjen.

At The Paris Review: notes on Stanley Mouse and psychedelia.

Mark Waid and Fiona Staples make the case for Archie.

Michael Kimball on the concept of the one-hour MFA.

Talking comics with Simon Spurrier.

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