Laura van den Berg explored how she wrote the story “Hill of Hell.”

Ken Liu was interviewed at Guernica.

The Los Angeles Review of Books talked art with Olivia Laing and Lucy Ives.

Ad Hoc talked with Brooklyn band Public Practice.

The finalists for this year’s Locus Awards have been announced.

Nick Flynn talked poetry at The Rumpus.

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