“His stage name winks at Screaming Jay Hawkins, an obvious inspiration for Sutch’s wild-eyed stage presence. But he was a deranged visionary in his own right: a shock-rock pioneer.” Jody Rosen on the (non-postpunk) Savages.

Two members of Pussy Riot recently appeared at Bluestockings.

The latest issue of Pocket Notes has work from Lydia Davis, Zachary Schomburg, and more.

With Maxwell’s closing at the end of July, Nick Moran reflects on Hoboken.

The Nervous Breakdown has an excerpt up from Alina Simone’s Note to Self.

Masha Hamilton made a playlist for her novel What Changes Everything.

Sadie Stein on Wales’s Hay-on-Wye.

The end of Los Angeless L & M Arts.

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