“An enigmatic presence in New York’s downtown art scene, Rammellzee wasn’t just another crazy guy with three pairs of Geordi La Forge glasses perched on his very busy skull. He imagined train cars linking different phrases, a sort of “Conjunction Junction” on aerosol fumes.” Dave Tompkins talks Rammellzee at The Paris Review.

• Bookavore on the recent D’Agata/Fingal/Julavits event at McNally Jackson.
• William Giraldi on the fiction of William Gay.

• Gabrielle Gantz talks with Michael Ian Black.

• Aaron Gonsher provides a guide to the Unsound Festival.

• Our own Jason Diamond on the latest album from Mad Scene.

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