Autre has an excerpt from Amber Sparks’s The Unfinished World and Other Stories.

At the Observer, a look at Latino punk bands.

Delving into Octavia E. Butler’s journals.

Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You was reviewed in the Times.

Becky Cloonan created a comic based on Deafheaven lyrics.

Electric Literature has new fiction from Patrick DeWitt.

And in 90s hardcore news: ranking the albums of Lifetime.

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