Highly recommended: Morgan Parker’s “A Brief History of the Present.”

Amelia Gray was interviewed at Entropy.

Jeanne Fury talked with Shirley Manson and Butch Vig of Garbage.

Mallory Ortberg vs. Ender’s Game.

Jordan Parker talked race, class, and crime fiction in an interview with The Life Sentence.

New fiction from Rais Neza Boneza at Brittle Paper.

At Hyperallergic: a look at violent design in the current century.

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