Happy Halloween! Electric Literature explored the unsettling work of weird fiction author Robert Aickman, which seems like seasonally appropriate reading.

Aster(ix) Journal interviewed Wendy C. Ortiz about her new book Bruja.

At Ad Hoc, Body/Head recommended some recent music.

Read It Forward explored second novels that were better than their authors’ first.

Vulture talked with six novelists about writing fiction set in the 1980s.

The Bronx is now without a bookstore.

Brooklyn Vegan ranked some notable records released by Lookout!.

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