Largehearted Boy: Shorties (Claire Messud on Why She Writes, Veruca Salt on Their Reunion, and more)

August 12, 2015

Claire Messud shared why she writes at Literary Hub.

Paste interviewed the members of Veruca Salt about the band's reunion.

Author Will Chancellor on literary ambition at The Oyster Review.

The Quietus interviewed Iron Maiden guitarists Adrian Smith and Janick Gers.

Roxane Gay interviewed Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Barnes and Noble Review.

Lower Dens’ Jana Hunter and Mike Hadreas (aka Perfume Genius) discussed music, gender, and more at The Talkhouse podcast.

Electric Literature features an excerpt from Helen Phillips' novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat.

Beach House's Alex Scally discussed the band's new album Depression Cherry with Rolling Stone.

The Asahi Shimbun profiled author Monique Truong.

Stereogum interviewed singer-songwriter Natalie Prass.

The Los Angeles Times interviewed singer-songwriter Jason Isbell.

Bret Easton Ellis reviewed the new David Foster Wallace movie The End of the Tour at The Talkhouse.

Unwound's Justin Trosper broke down the band's Peel Sessions EP track-by-track at NPR Music.

Stream the trailer for the Arcade Fire's full-length film The Reflektor Tapes.

Stream a new Doe Paroe song.

The Frisky listed the best books for men to read.

Drowned in Sound interviewed members of the band The Unthanks.

The Atlantic reviewed Jonathan Franzen's new novel Purity.

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