Constance Grady wrote about Catherynne M. Valente’s The Glass Town Game for Vox.

Literary Hub has a report from this year’s Well-Read Black Girl Festival.

Eileen Myles was interviewed at Kirkus, and also wrote about John Ashbery for Out.

The shortlists for this year’s Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize have been announced.

At Hyperallergic, thoughts on the poetry of Anthony Madrid.

Ned Raggett on the 30th anniversary of Depeche Mode’s Music For the Masses.

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