At Tor.com, Nisi Shawl revisited Octavia E. Butler’s short story “Bloodchild.”

Veronica Scott Esposito explored the concept of a “trans literature of the everyday” at Literary Hub.

The Creative Independent talked poetry with Dorothea Lasky.

Maggie Gyllenhaal is working on an adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter.

Punch explored the soundtracks to NYC’s record bars.

New music is on the way from Ian William Craig.

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