Slate talked with Samuel R. Delany about his working process.

There’s a terrific new essay by Helena Fitzgerald up now at Hazlitt.

The Brooklyn Rail on their favorite books of 2017.

At Hyperallergic, a look back at Langston Hughes’s Christmas cards.

Chuck Wendig has some gift ideas for the writer in your life.

American Nightmare have a new album in the works.

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