The New Yorker has an excerpt up from Kevin Young’s Bunk.

Ilana Masad reviewed Devin Murphy’s The Boat Runner for the Times.

Electric Literature explored ten beers with a literary inspiration.

At Razorcake, Chris L. Terry wrote about punk and hip-hop.

The Los Angeles Review of Books interviewed Stephen Elliott.

Viv Albertine (of The Slits) has a new book in the works.

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