At the LA Review of Books, an excerpt from Alexandra Tanner’s new novel.

The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College is holding a poetry cafe later this month.

Drunken Boat reported on Peter Zilahy’s recent visit to NYC.

Lauren LeBlanc reviewed Vinson Cunningham’s debut.

At Locus, Cory Doctorow wrote about capitalists and capitalism.

The New York Times pondered Sloane Crosley’s new memoir.

At The Quietus, revisiting the music of U.S. Maple.

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