Editor’s note: This week’s cover story is about speculative fiction author Zig Zag Claybourne, whose new book Afro Puffs Are the Antennae of the Universe comes with a suggested soundtrack. We asked ...

In the mid-1990s, the song ‘Afro Puffs’ by the Lady of Rage shot to onto the billboard charts, like a crowning afro puff on top of a square neck. ‘I rock rough n stuff with my afro puff,’ she raged, ...