Stephanie A. Smith wrote about her friendship with Ursula K. Le Guin.

Terese Marie Mailhot wrote about learning from Maggie Nelson’s Bluets.

The schedule for this year’s PEN World Voices Festival has been announced.

At BOMB, Ryan Chapman reviewed Martin Amis’s new nonfiction collection.

Electric Literature has published new fiction by Lydia Davis and Ali Shapiro.

Feel like listening to new music from Philadelphia’s Dark Blue?

Pitchfork reviewed the reissue of Songs:Ohia’s Travels in Constants EP.

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