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January 23, 2020
Shorties (N.K. Jemisin Profiled, New Music from Waxahatchee, and more)
The New Yorker profiled author N.K. Jemisin.
Jemisin is black, in her mid-forties, and wears her hair in dreadlocks. In her author photo, she gazes sternly at the camera, as if ready for literary combat. In person, she is much warmer, but she likes the picture. Typically, at the center of her fiction, there is a character with coiled strength. Jemisin, who has a degree in psychology, is interested in power and in systems of subjugation. In her books, the oppressed often possess an enormous capacity for agency—a supernatural ability, even, that their oppressors lack—but they exist in a society that has been engineered to hold them down. Eventually, the world is reordered, often with a cataclysm.
Stream a new Waxahatchee song.
Largehearted Boy's list of "best books of 2019" lists has collected 1,430 year-end lists so far.
Largehearted Boy's list of essential and interesting year-end "best of 2019" music lists.
Max Richter played a Tiny Desk Concert.
The Communist Party USA named its best books of the decade.
Stream a new Stephen Malkmus song.
The New York Times profiled author Charles Yu.
It’s been nearly 15 years since the National Book Foundation anointed Yu as one of the best young writers in America, yet for the first time, he’s starting to believe he’s a writer. Maybe he’s not an impostor after all. “If anything, it’s feeling confident that if I say the thing I’m trying to say in the way that I know how to say it, that will be interesting to at least some people,” Yu said. “It’s nice when you feel like you kind of know what you’re doing, a little bit.”
Stream a new song by Andy Shauf.
Bustle previewed 2020's best books.
Stream a new Mary Lattimore song.
Bitchmedia recommended nonfiction books feminists should read in 2020.
Stream a new M. Ward song.
Stream a new song by Japan, Man.
William Gibson discussed his new novel, Agency, with Marketplace.
Stream a new song by Worriers.
The Guardian profiled author Liz Moore.
Stream a new song by Cindy Lee.
Vulture caught up with Fiona Apple.
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
