Michele Filgate interviewed Jade Sharma for the Los Angeles Times.

At BuzzFeed: Mira Jacob on discussing racism.

Roxane Gay is writing a comic for Marvel.

Paul Constant reviewed the new novel from Donald Ray Pollock.

Jason Diamond on Ken Griffey, Jr.’s baseball video game that invoked John Waters and Russian literature.

A new book is revisiting the LA punk zine Slash.

At Literary Hub: looking at a variety of literary plagues.

The time Archie met The Ramones.

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