"Nirvana," from Johnson’s National Book Award-winning collection Fortune Smiles, is featured on Literary Hub. The piece tells story of how holograms and Kurt Cobain comfort a desperate man and his sick wife.

Mehta discusses the redevelopment of Coney Island, the “art of listening,” and why, when it comes to narratives of migration, “the game is rigged.”

In The Paris Review, Phillips investigates the Golden State Warriors’ winning streak and the “trace of sadness” in player Steph Curry’s “endless heat check.”

The profile of Orlandersmith delves into the playwright’s love of rock music and her upcoming work about Ferguson.

Hayes discusses his struggles with Southern literature and which book he reads every other year.

Hazlitt talks to Luc Sante about seeing Paris for the first time when he was eight years old and why a visit to the Louvre was the “key moment” of his life.

In the Chicago Tribune, a piece on the writer who was “rich in ambition and maverick in sensibility” and a review of his novel The Works of Love.

D'Ambrosio discusses "the truest thing" about his work and why, in writing a personal essay, “you’re more mysterious than you know."

In Toad Journal, three new poems by Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams about faces in trees and men who levitate.

Koestenbaum reveals his favorite word and explains how visual art compliments his written work.