Zachary Thomas Dodson assembled a playlist for his novel Bats of the Republic, which was reviewed at Real Pants.

At Literary Hub, Paul Holdengraber interviewed Claudia Rankine.

Wesley Morris wrote about the ways in which questions of identity were raised in this year’s news and cultural discussions.

At Pitchfork, Matt Kessler wrote about listening to Huggy Bear in Alabama in 1995.

Checking in with Josh Gondelman at the Observer.

Brooklyn’s Spectacle Theater is running a Kickstarter campaign.

At Gorse: an excerpt from a long interview with Lee Rourke.

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