At Tor.com, Charlie Jane Anders has an essay about karaoke.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Violet Kupersmith, and T Kira Madden discussed race, perception, and literature.

Electric Literature is publishing a new serialized novella by Joe Meno.

Janet Frishberg has new writing in the latest issue of Storychord.

Ned Raggett wrote about the making of Algiers’s new album.

A film adaptation of Jedidiah Ayres’s Peckerwood is in the works.

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