The finalists for the 2016 CLMP Firecracker Awards have been announced.

Lynn Steger Strong wrote about motherhood and writing.

The Los Angeles Times has announced its critics-at-large.

Jonathan Lethem on Steve Erickson’s next novel.

Checking in with Miroslav Penkov at Electric Literature.

Thoughts on Ryan W. Bradley’s Nothing But the Dead and the Dying.

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