Emma Straub revisited Elliott Smith’s Either/Or for The Paris Review.

The latest issue of Storychord is now up.

The Nervous Breakdown has new nonfiction by Donald Quist.

Greil Marcus on American politics and punk history.

Katy Henriksen has a new essay about her changing perceptions on the South.

At Impose: hanging out with the Seattle punk band Childbirth.

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