Checking in with John Reis of Drive Like Jehu.

Alexander Chee interviewed Saeed Jones for The Rumpus, and was interviewed by Jane Hu for The Awl.

Hazlitt has new writing from Laina Dawes on ignoring horrible acts by celebrities.

Bryan Washington on politics and poetry.

Carolyn Kellogg on Los Angeles’s floating library.

At 3:AM: a review of Brandon Hobson’s Desolation of Avenues Untold.

A look at the making of the music of Vinyl.

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