Literary Hub has published an excerpt from Jenny Xie’s Eye Level.

Benjamin Kunkel revisited the writings of Pablo Neruda for the New Republic.

Amanda Petrusich wrote about Graceland for the New Yorker.

If you’d like to explore some technologically experimental narrative work by Bijan Stephen, you can do so here.

Laura Anne Gilman wrote about writing weird Western fiction.

Pitchfork reviewed Sixth House, the new album from The Rock*A*Teens.

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