Noisey has an excerpt up from the forthcoming history of The Empty Bottle.

Victor LaValle shared what he learned about writing from comics.

Mensah Demary wrote about Nas, Denis Johnson, and short story collections for Electric Literature.

Molly Rose Quinn on the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca.

Abraham Riesman on Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam.

At Flavorwire: notes on Davis Means’s Hystopia.

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