There’s a new essay at The Stranger by Alexander Chee.

The Nervous Breakdown has an excerpt from Jessie Chaffee’s Florence in Ecstasy.

Kirkus reviewed Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties.

Kiese Laymon wrote the introduction for the new anthology History Between These Folds.

Melissa Wiley interviewed Jess Arndt for The Rumpus.

At 3:AM, revisiting the art of Georgia O’Keeffe.

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