Signature interviewed R. O. Kwon; Kwon also assembled a The Incendiaries-themed playlist for Largehearted Boy.

At Vulture, you can watch the trailer for Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk.

Viet Thanh Nguyen conversed with Arundhati Roy at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

At The Millions, Lucy Tan talked literature and history with Crystal Hana Kim.

Pitchfork talked with Phosphorescent about their new album.

There’s a Kickstarter campaign underway for an illustrated seltzer tasting journal.

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