There’s an excerpt from Sarah Gerard’s Sunshine State at Cosmonauts Avenue.

The New York Times Magazine‘s music issue has new writing from Margo Jefferson, Alexander Chee, Angela Flournoy, and more.

Amanda Petrusich wrote about Brian Eno’s latest album for The Nation.

Jonathan Lee on the sentences of Zadie Smith.

Feel like reading an excerpt from Nat Baldwin’s The Red Barn?

At Electric Literature, a review of April Ayers Lawson’s new collection.

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