At The Believer, Jim Knipfel revisited Sun Ra’s legacy.

John Scalzi has a remembrance of the late Harlan Ellison at the Los Angeles Times.

At Dusted, FACS’s Brian Case recommended some music.

Sassafras Lowrey recommended five works of queer literature at the Center for Fiction.

At BOMB, thoughts on Ursula Le Guin and Todd Barton’s Music and Poetry of the Kesh.

“It used to be if you were a character actor, people almost had to study to figure out what you were in.” Vox interviewed Bob Balaban.

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