James Yeh interviewed Carmen Maria Machado at Mic.

There’s a fundraiser underway in memory of Anthony Veasna So.

Literary Hub published an excerpt from Michaelangelo Matos’s Can’t Slow Down.

The Quietus reviewed Spike Lee’s film of David Byrne’s American Utopia.

At Bandcamp Daily, thoughts on the year’s best ambient albums.

Miranda Popkey  discussed the year in books at The Millions.

Fiction Writers Review reviewed Jamie Marina Lau’s Pink Mountain on Locust Island.

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