BuzzFeed has published an excerpt from Bethany C. Morrow’s Mem.

At Slate, Laura Miller explored the literary legacy of Tom Wolfe.

Rachel Kushner has some things she’d like to recommend.

At Largehearted Boy, Julia Dixon Evans’s playlist for her book How to Set Yourself on Fire.

There’s new fiction by Robert Lopez at The Spectacle.

Piotr Orlov explored Glenn Branca’s musical and artistic legacy.

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