Read It Forward has an excerpt from Kathryn Johnson’s My Time With the Kings.

At The Creative Independent, Brandon Stosuy talked with Brontez Purnell.

Vox on the importance of protests by artists and writers.

At the New Yorker, Kristen Radtke on loneliness, subways, and sleep.

Revisiting the work of the late Mark Fisher at 3:AM.

There’s new writing from Mara Beckman at Tin House.

At The Talkhouse, Tommy Stinson conversed with Wayne Kramer.

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