Weekend Bites: Maggie Nelson, “Buffy” Revisited, Prurient Interviewed, Feminist Biographies, and More

Nelson-Argonauts

Maggie Nelson wrote about the books that influenced the writing of The Argonauts.

At Pacific Standard, Jason Diamond wrote about Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

At Book Riot: a look at whitewashing and summer reading lists.

Michele Filgate wrote about feminist biography at the Brooklyn Quarterly.

Longreads has new nonfiction from Aaron Gilbreath on the subject of Bakersfield.

Zachary Lipez interviewed Prurient at Noisey.

Here’s a fine interview with poet Arecelis Girmay.

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