Los Crudos’s Martin Sorrondeguy was interviewed at Pitchfork.

At Bookforum: Porochista Khakpour on Alison C. Rose’s Better Than Sane.

Ken Chen wrote about race and Conceptual Poetry.

Here’s new short fiction from Maria Dahvana Headley.

And, in news of slash fiction: Maris Kreizman pairs Ishmael and Queequeg; Zachary Lipez pairs Morrissey and David Crosby.

At Largehearted Boy, a playlist from Aleksandar Hemon.

Jay Hathaway on science fiction publishers and reactionary politics.

Entropy has a review of Gabino Iglesias’s Hungry Darkness.

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