Writers we like on NYC’s cultural spaces: Judy Berman on ABC No Rio, and Amanda Petrusich on Other Music.

Ta-Nehisi Coates was interviewed at Playboy.

Alexis M. Smith on Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.

Michaelangelo Matos on the live music of Van Morrison.

At Literary Hub: thoughts on bosses and dystopian futures.

A look at video game memoirs at Signature.

Photo: Cantara via Creative Commons.

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