Rob Spillman wrote about Claudia Rankine’s Citizen for Guernica.

Charles Reinhardt interviewed John Lancaster for the Barnes & Noble Review.

Isaac Fitzgerald discussed Pen & Ink at Electric Literature.

The Rumpus has an excerpt up from John Dermot Woods’s The Baltimore Atrocities.

Ashley Ford was interviewed on Book Riot’s Reading Lives podcast.

The Brooklyn Rail has new poetry from Gabriele Tinti.

Sarah Rose Etter interviewed Dominic Palermo at The Fanzine.

A look at the time Bob Dylan almost made a slapstick comedy for HBO.

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