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Will Alexander has poetry up at Jacket2.
Ryan Boyd and friends have a podcast on classic wrestling.
Christopher Higgs interviews Dodie Bellamy for The Paris Review.
Gabino Iglesias reviews The Fun We’ve Had.
Bookslut reviewed Peter Tieryas Liu’s Bald New World.
Joe Milazzo has new poetry in SpringGun and he writes about Hind’s Kidnap in Bagatellen.
edward j rathke has new fiction in Cartridge Lit. His novel Noir: A Love Story is going to be the LitReactor book club pick for September, too!
Michael J. Seidlinger is editing Everyday Genius for the month of August; he was also interviewed by CityLitRag.
Trevor Sensor reviews New Tab at HTMLGIANT.
Carolyn Zaikowski’s A Child is Being Killed was reviewed in The Lit Pub and in The Toronto Quarterly.
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The Periodic Table of Storytelling
Dogs and SF go hand-in-hand (Electric Literature , 8/4)
Disection of the word “xenomorph” (Ars Technica, 8/2)
Pop culture as children’s books (ShortList, 7/30)
The history of bookplates (Archives of American Art, 7/21)
Why doodle? (Co.design, 8/4)
“The Tough Realities Behind Vinyl’s Comeback” (Pitchfork, 7/28)
New poetry by Beach Sloth (Dig That Book Co., 8/1)
Lev Grossman on “How Not to Write Your First Novel.” (Buzzfeed Books, 8/5)
Stephen Graham Jones on Wer. (DemonTheory, 7/30)
David Lynch revisits Twin Peaks. (USAToday, 8/1)
Thomas Pynchon isn’t for everyone. (Biblioklept, 5/8)
A feminist reading of Pretty Deadly (Feminine Inquiry, 7/30)
Se7en in 8-bit. (Sploid, 8/5)