Hey, there’s a New York Times Magazine profile of Patricia Lockwood.

Medium has an excerpt up from Emma Straub’s The Vacationers.

Some highbrow beach reads, perhaps?

Underwater New York has a new essay from Nicole Haroutunian.

Reading Rainbow has a Kickstarter campaign running.

Doug Mosurock on Road To Siam, the new EP from Sir Richard Bishop.

The Quietus has an interview with Godflesh’s Justin Broadrick and Loop’s Robert Hampson.

Noisey on new music from Philadelphia’s Dark Blue, including a John Cale cover.

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