Dorthe Nors offers some advice on how to write “emotionally resonant” fiction. | Lit Hub Craft

“Jason was not just hounded out of academia, he was hounded out of existence.” Steven Thrasher on the killing Jason Arday.​| Lit Hub

Claire Boyles considers the impact of the American West’s water crisis on her writing: “In fiction, we connect with characters we don’t have to continue living with, and in that ephemeral state of love we may be more willing to consider ideas and perspectives we would otherwise resist.” | Lit Hub Craft

How surveillance technology infuses policing with even more racial bias. | Lit Hub Politics

“What if every human being were born with an irresistible need to do good?” Christelle Dabos explores the radical possibilities of empathy. | Lit Hub Craft

“The first time I saw this place, I knew I had come home.” Read from Joan Barfoot’s new novel, Gaining Ground. | Lit Hub Fiction

Accelerate, dog, accelerate! Elise Broach considers the strange rise of high-level STEM books for babies. | The New Yorker

Carolyn Kellogg looks at the ambitious literature coming out of California via Unnamed Press and Transit Books. | Los Angeles Times

Saad Khan and Joey Chriqui of the “utterly visionary” Khajistan talk to Megan Fernandes. | Broadcast

Alex Dueben explores how the poetics of Letterism show up in comics. | The Comics Journal

Jessica Simmons-Reid looks at Sophie Calle through the work of Hervé Guibert. | Los Angeles Review of Books