At Largehearted Boy, a playlist from Chloe Caldwell for her new essay collection.

Electric Literature has a review of Matt Bell’s new collection.

Feel like watching a short film adapting Amelia Gray’s story “Labyrinth”?

Margaret Eby on Alabama and the music of Hank Williams.

At Slate, a look at an alarming strain of apocalyptic fiction.

Atlas Obscura explored the secret apartments of the New York Public Library system.

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