Electric Literature interviewed Amy Gustine about her new book You Should Pity Us Instead.

Morgan Jerkins has a new essay, “Writing While Black,” up now at Literary Hub.

A look at the Manhattanville Reading Series, making its debut next week.

BuzzFeed has new writing from Paul Lisicky.

At Slate: a look at the life of Julian of Norwich.

Bud Smith has assembled a playlist for his book F 250.

Michael Tedder revisited Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele.

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