Weekend Bites: Ling Ma’s Award, Sonic Youth’s Live Album, Nathan Ballingrud’s Fiction, and More


Ling Ma has won this year’s Young Lions Fiction Award.

Pitchfork reviewed Sonic Youth’s Battery Park, NYC: July 4, 2008.

At Birth.Movies.Death., a look at the harrowing fiction of Nathan Ballingrud.

Jessie Losch wrote about identity, citizenship, and soccer.

The latest installment of the Under the Influence is up at Entropy.

Hyperallergic delved into the history of R. Crumb’s magazine Weirdo.

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