There’s new fiction by Carmen Maria Machado at Slate.

At Literary Hub, thoughts on the experience of opening a bookstore in Cold Spring, NY.

Michelle Tea wrote about enlightenment for Artforum.

Full Stop reviewed Porochista Khakpour’s memoir Sick.

duncan b. barlow, Nancy Hightower, and Joanna C. Valente are reading tonight at Transmitter.

At The Millions, revisiting Sherwood Anderson’s novel Poor White.

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