NPR reviewed Saeed Jones’s memoir How We Fight For Our Lives.

At the New Republic, a question is posed: is the Nobel Prize Committee messing with us?

Patrick Earl Ryan has won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction for 2019.

Electric Literature’s Masquerade of the Red Death will take place on October 24.

At Pitchfork, Maura Johnston reviewed that dog.’s new album.

Tor.com has posed the trailer for the forthcoming Henry James adaptation The Turning.

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