If you’d like to read an excerpt from Matt Bell’s Appleseed, Esquire has you covered.

EveryLibrary is taking applications for its Artist in Residence program.

Joy Williams will receive the 2021 Library of Congress Prize.

Tough Poets Press is holding a Kickstarter campaign for a new edition of Izzy Abrahami’s The Game.

InsideHook has some July reading recommendations.

Bright Wall/Dark Room looked back on David Cronenberg’s adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s Crash.

At Full Stop, thoughts on Elle Nash’s new collection.

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