At Largehearted Boy, Lance Scott Walker created a playlist for his book Houston Rap Tapes.

Literary Hub explored how the Dead Rabbits Reading Series expanded into a small press.

At The Ringer, Lindsay Zoladz wrote about the enduring power of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks.

This year’s PEN Emerging Voices Fellows have been announced.

Gessy Alvarez has new fiction up at Hobart.

The New Republic on the border library that’s taken on a massive urgency in recent months.

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