There’s an excerpt from Jessie Chaffee’s Florence in Ecstasy up now at Literary Hub.

At Vox, indie booksellers preview their most anticipated books for the summer.

Aaron Bady wrote about the Jalada literary collective for Pacific Standard.

Electric Literature talked Broken River with J. Robert Lennon.

Pitchfork has a guide to the music of Nina Simone.

Jeff Jackson wrote about Robert Frank in his Ideal Home Noise column.

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