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June 12, 2017
Shorties (Andrew Sean Greer on His Story in the New Yorker, Stream the New Jason Isbell Album, and more)
Andrew Sean Greer talked to the New Yorker about his story in this week's issue.
NPR Music is streaming Jason Isbell's new album The Nashville Sound.
Read It Forward recommended books to read after The Handmaid's Tale.
Stream a new Ride song.
Literary Hub recommended books you may have missed in May.
Stream a new Frightened Rabbit song.
Signature recommended classic beach reads.
Stream a new Trailer Trash Tracys song.
The Rumpus interviewed author Julie Buntin.
BBC 6 Music interviewed Radiohead's Thom Yorke.
The White Review interviewed author Elif Batuman.
Stream a new Gordi song.
Literary Hub recommended works of literary horror.
The Creative Independent interviewed members of Future Islands.
The Washington Post recommended new graphic novels.
Stream a new Pains of Being Pure at Heart song.
The New York Post recommended Father's Day book gifts.
NPR Music is streaming Beth Ditto's new album Fake Sugar.
Men's Journal and Vulture recommended June's best new books.
Hilton Als on Diane Arbus.
Teju Cole talked to Weekend Edition about his new book Blind Spot.
The New Yorker examined the persistence of prog rock.
The Creative Independent interviewed author Maaza Mengiste.
Stream a new Toro Y Moi song.
Guernica interviewed author Julia Fierro.
Men's Journal and the Australian profiled singer-songwriter jason Isbell.
Work in Progress interviewed author Jeff VanderMeer.
Stream a new Fawns of Love song.
The Salt interviewed John T. Edge about his new book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South.
Salon previewed summer's best new music.
Joyland features new short fiction by Nicholas Mancusi.
Stream a new Emily Haines song.
Haines discussed her new solo album with Rolling Stone.
The Rumpus interviewed author Sabina Murray.
Drowned in Sound reconsidered Unwound's Leaves Turn Inside You album.
eBooks on sale for $0.99 today:
A Father's Law by Richard Wright
The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Across the Bridge by Mavis Gallant
Blind Ambition by John W. Dean
Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay
The Drowning Season by Alice Hoffman
Finks by Joel Whitney
Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy
The Hippest Trip in America by Nelson George
History by Elsa Morante
Insurrections of the Mind by Franklin Foer
The Humans by Matt Haig
Living Like a Runaway by Lita Ford
The Los Angeles Diaries by James Brown
The Memory Place by Mira Bartok
Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto
My Cross To Bear by Gregg Allman
Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming
An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
Pavilion of Women by Pearl Buck
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel
A Widow's Story by Joyce Carole Oates
eBooks on sale for $2.99 today:
All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and All Things Wise and Wonderful: Three James Herriot Classics
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Back to Blood by Thomas Wolfe
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Frog Music by Emma Donohue
The Group, The Company She Keeps, and Birds of America: Three Novels in One Collection by Mary McCarthy
Jackie Under My Skin by Wane Koestenbaum
Land's End by Michael Cunningham
eBooks on sale for $3.99 today:
And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts
Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous Shorties posts (daily news and links from the worlds of music, books, and pop culture)
Atomic Books Comics Preview (the week's best new comics and graphic novels)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week (recommended new books, magazines, and comics)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Short Cuts (writers pair a song with their short story or essay)
weekly music release lists
WORD Bookstores Books of the Week (recommended new books)
weekly music release lists
