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October 23, 2019
Shorties (Zadie Smith on the Importance of Fiction, A Halloween Playlist, and more)
Zadie Smith wrote about the importance of fiction at the New York Review of Books.
Gorilla Vs. Bear shared a Halloween playlist.
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Lips Unsealed by Belinda Carlisle
Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Stream a new song by Hop Along's Frances Quinlan.
Oprah Magazine listed dystopian novels worth reading.
Stream a new song by Blaenavon.
BuzzFeed listed creepy books.
Share a new song by Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron.
Jami Attenberg discussed her new novel with The Advocate.
“The tertiary characters, they really just showed up very naturally and organically as I was writing the first draft,” Attenberg says. “Most of those characters are native New Orleanian characters. So when I was writing from this outsider perspective, I thought that's my safe way to write it and start writing it. Then almost immediately, these characters all showed up, and they're like, ‘Uh, do you really think you're going to tell the story without us?’ … So I just let them roll.”
Stream a new song by Destroyer.
The 2019 shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction has been announced.
Stream a new Mister Goblin song.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn interviewed author Oliver Zarandi.
Peter Hook shared is five best books to take on tour at BrooklynVegan.
Literary Hub recommended the best books of the week.
Rolling Stone interviewed singer-songwriter Angel Olsen.
The Offing shared an excerpt from Leland Cheuk’s No Good Very Bad Asian.
Aquarium Drunkard interviewed musician Damo Suzuki.
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
