Danez Smith was interviewed at The Guardian.

At NPR, Gabino Iglesias reviewed Tola Rotimi Abraham’s Black Sunday.

Steregum has new music from U.S. Girls.

At Full Stop, thoughts on Bohumil Hrabal’s All My Cats.

The Chicago Review of Books delved into Emily Nemens’s novel The Cactus League.

Greenpointers has a preview of the newly-redesigned Greenpoint Library.

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