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August 22, 2017
Shorties (Fall's Best Books, Matt Berninger on the New Album by the National, and more)
ELLE previewed fall's best new books.
Matt Berninger broke down the National's new album Sleep Well Beast on the Rolling Stone podcast.
CLASH interviewed author Sarah Gerard.
The band Chvrches will be features in an Archies comics.
Tin House features new short fiction by Justin Taylor.
Luna covered the Cure's "Fire in Cairo."
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature has announced its 2017 longlist.
PopMatters examined the musical legacy of Tony Conrad.
Weekend Edition interviewed Ayobami Adebayo about her debut novel, Stay with Me.
CBC Music is streaming Oh Sees' new album Orc.
Entropy interviewed author Zoe Zolbrod.
James Murphy discussed LCD Soundsystem's return with Vulture and the New York Times.
Haaretz recommended North Korean films and books.
Diane Coffee covered Pink Floyd's "Eclipse."
Book Riot previewed September's best books by British authors.
John Darnielle talked writing with the Independent.
eBooks on sale for $0.99 today:
Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter by Brooke Allen
J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist by Thomas Beller
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island by Claire Prentice
Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open by Phoebe Hoban
Men, Women & Children by Chad Kultgen
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
Life Among Giants by Bill Roorbach
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch
A Small Revolution by Jimin Han
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
eBooks on sale for $2.99 today:
Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Inferno by Eileen Myles
The Sunlit Room by Rebecca Dinerstein
Visible City by Tova Mirvis
eBooks on sale for $3.99 today:
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Lightning People by Christopher Bollen
The River Why by David James Duncan
The Theoretical Foot by M. F. K. Fisher
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
