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July 14, 2017
Shorties (The Longlist for the Center For Fiction's First Novel Prize, Stream the New Waxahatchee Album, and more)
The Center For Fiction has announced the long list for its First Novel Prize.
Katie Crutchfield talked to Paste about the new Waxahatchee album Out in the Storm.
Stream the album at NPR Music.
Hazlitt interviewed author Samantha Irby.
Stream a new Nine Inch Nails song.
Elizabeth Crane talked to the Los Angeles Review of Books about her short story collection Turf.
Maz Richter shared a track-by-track breakdown of his album Behind the Counter at Drowned in Sound.
The Otherppl podcast interviewed author Scott McClanahan.
NPR Music is streaming Daphni's new album Fabriclive 93.
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats visited The Current studios for an interview and live performance.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Akhil Sharma's short story collection A Life of Adventure and Delight.
The Argonaut profiled singer-songwriter Joan Shelley.
Bookworm interviewed author Joshua Cohen.
Paste listed the best punk cover songs.
The Chicago Tribune and ELLE listed the best books of 2017 so far.
The Chicago Tribune interviewed Thurston Moore.
Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner broke down her album Soft Sounds From Another Planet track-by-track at All Songs Considered.
Stream Ben Gibbard's cover of Teenage Fanclub's "The Concept."
Literary Hub examined Iceland's burgeoning crime fiction scene.
NPR Music is streaming Nicole Atkins' new album Goodnight Rhonda Lee.
The Nation shared two poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips.
Stream a new Arcade Fire song.
The Financial Times profiled author Edna O'Brien.
NPR Music is streaming Cornelius's new album Mellow Waves.
Drowned in Sound reconsidered the Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album.
eBooks on sale for $1.13 today:
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
The Birthday of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
The Coral Sea by Patti Smith
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Girl in the Woods by Aspen Matis
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Journey to the End of the Night by Celine
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Peony by Pearl S. Buck
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr.
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
eBooks on sale for $2.99 today:
Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal
The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
John Crow's Devil by Marlon James
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
eBooks on sale for $3.99 today:
Every Kind of Wanting by Gina Frangello
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
The Hunters by James Salter
Sam Shepard: A Life by John Winters
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
